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<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nThe S.S. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria<\/em><\/p>\n The\u00c2\u00a0Passenger Arrival Manifest for Marianna Danko<\/a> states that:<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0 Auguste Viktoria, Germany’s Last Kaiserin<\/em><\/p>\n The Marianna Danko\u00c2\u00a0listed on the manifest\u00c2\u00a0is definitely my grandfather’s sister, and the description matches that\u00c2\u00a0of my Great Aunt Mary .\u00a0 Marianna Danko, according to this manifest, was 25 years old on June 26, 1909, meaning that she was born in about 1883-1884. The fact that Marianna departed from Hamburg provides another document – the record of her departure from Hamburg .\u00a0 The Family History Library has the Hamburg Passenger Lists on microfilm, a set of 486 film reels including indexes and the lists themselves recording departures from Hamburg from 1850 to 1934 (excluding 1915-1919 when records were not kept because of World War I) .\u00a0 Many libraries have written descriptions of the Hamburg Passenger Lists, and these lists are described in detail in many books on immigration .\u00a0 In short, there are two sets of lists, the Direct Lists for passengers traveling directly from Hamburg to their final destination, and the Indirect Lists for passengers planning to stop at another European port before traveling to their final destinations. Since I knew the name of the ship and the departure date, I quickly found Marianna in the indexes, which told me that she was listed on page 1300 of the lists .\u00a0 Sure enough, on FHL INTL Film [473001], Marianna (spelled Marjanna\u00c2\u00a0on this record)\u00c2\u00a0is listed on line 830 .\u00a0 The manifest states that Marjanna Danko<\/a> was a 25-year-old woman from Nienadowa, Galicia .\u00a0 The manifest contains additional information, but\u00c2\u00a0I can’t\u00c2\u00a0read what it says .\u00a0 Again, Marjanna’s age indicates that she was born in about 1883-1884 .\u00a0 I only have one page from the Hamburg Passenger List, but I’d like to look at the rest of the pages to see if there’s more information on her departure. Well, here’s the information on Great Aunt Mary’s birth date, so far:<\/p>\n So, the evidence in sources up through June 26, 1909 is all\u00c2\u00a0consistent with a birth date of January 12, 1884, and the evidence in sources thereafter is all consistent with a birth date of March 12, 1887 .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Do all of these documents represent one person or two?\u00c2\u00a0 If they represent one person, it appears that Mary changed her birth date after she arrived in the United States .\u00a0 There are still more documents to examine .\u00a0 Perhaps one of these other documents will provide more clues. Finally, notice that Marianna was traveling with\u00c2\u00a0Marcin Wejda\u00c2\u00a0from Nienadowa .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0In the Ellis Island Passenger Arrival List,\u00a0Marcin indicated that he was going to stay with his cousin, Michael Danko, in Worcester, Massachusetts .\u00a0 I’ll write more about Marcin on another day.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the 1920 and 1930 US Federal Census Records,\u00a0I discovered that my Great Aunt Mary immigrated in either 1909 or 1910 .\u00a0 A search of the Ellis Island Passenger Lists reveals a Marianna Danko who arrived at Ellis Island in … Continue reading \n
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