I just got back from the great So. Cal. Genealogy Jamboree put on by the So. Cal. Genealogy Society. The last lecture I attended was by the Uber knowledgeable Stephen Danko. He has the “gold standard” version of a genealogy weblog. It here. Be astounded. I always am.
Anyway, Steve’s talk was on immigration records. Basically [...]
Archive for the 'Manifest' Category
Enter, Bazili Wynohradnyk, Again
June 28, 2009Welcome Annie
March 12, 2009The 1920 census I reported earlier shows my Wainer Grandparents living in Maine. It also shows the years that they arrived in the states. I reported my Grandfather William arriving by train in an earlier post. My Grandmother is listed on the 1920 census as having arrived in 1911. Here is the record that I [...]
Mary Bowden (and family) comes to America
October 10, 2008Mary A Bowden was 6 years old when she came, with her family, to America. She boarded the steam ship “State of Indiana” at Larne, Ireland and arrived in New York on 2 September 1880. Below is a copy of the passenger list with Mary Bowden and her family.
To America through Canada
April 23, 2008Family legend had it that my Grandfather, Bazyli Wynohradnyk, was a cook in a logging camp in the Great White North of Canada. When I received the information from the Department of Homeland Security ( in a previous post) it indicated that my Grandfather had indeed emigrated to the U.S. through Canada.
After long searching on [...]
