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Yahooo!,
Yahooo!, Yahooo!
A breakthrough!
I had
mentioned in a posting a short time ago that I was working on family history
and making some significant progress. Well, tonight I made a major breakthrough
concerning my Great-grandfather and the two children he brought with him to
America. I knew some of the facts related to their immigration but the details
were missing.
For years I
have searched the Immigration Ship Transcribers Guild website for records
related to my forbears. These records are of ships and passengers who immigrated
to America mostly before Ellis Island opened. I never found any record related
to them.
Tonight
while searching using Ancestry.com I found the original record of my
Great-grandfather Franz, his daughter Rosina, and my Grandfather Stephan who
traveled from Bremen, Germany to Baltimore in 1883. This information correlates
with other data I had found including their passport which I have in my
possession. They traveled in a Family Compartment on the ship and brought 2
steamer trunks with them. I have one of the trunks and my sister has the other.
With this
information I can now enter more of the data that I have discovered in my
Ancestry file.
