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<\/a>S.S. Graf Waldersee<\/p><\/div>\n
As I mentioned two days ago, two of my uncles married daughters of Alexander Frank Skowronski .\u00a0 Alexander immigrated to America in 1903, but neither my cousin nor I could find him in the Ellis Island Records database .\u00a0 After many months, my cousin Joe finally found the record .\u00a0 Alexander had been listed in the passenger manifest with his mother and stepfather, but had been listed with his stepfather’s surname Siborowski, not his own surname, Skowronski.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Generalfeldmarschall Alfred Graf von Waldersee<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Passenger Manifest for the Siborowski\/Skowronski Family – 1903<\/p><\/div>\n
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Passenger Manifest\u00c2\u00a0for the Antoni Siborowski Family – 1903<\/a>. The manifest\u00c2\u00a0shows that:<\/p>\n Pawel’s entry includes the notation 1X-94580-505-9-4-41-<\/em> in the occupation column, which indicates that he was probably naturalized .\u00a0 The first number is the naturalization district, the X indicates that no fee was required for the Certificate of Arrival, the second group of numbers is the number of the Certificate of Arrival, the 505 is the verification form used to transmit information to the requesting Immigation and Naturalization Service Office, and the last group is the date of issuance of the Certificate of Arrival .\u00a0 A more detailed discussion of the annotations found on passenger manifests can be found at “A New Look at Immigrant Passenger Manifests<\/a>“.<\/p>\n The X between columns 1 and 2 on the manifest indicates that the Siborowskis were temporarily detained upon arrival .\u00a0 There may be a list of detained aliens at the end of the manifest, but I haven’t yet looked for this list.<\/p>\n S.S. Graf Waldersee<\/p><\/div>\n The family settled in Worcester County, Massachusetts, but where is Grondi, their place of origin, according to the passenger manifest?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A search of maps at Expedia.com reveals no place named Grondi anywhere in the world, but does show places named Grondy and Gr\u0105dy .\u00a0 Tomorrow, searching for the Skowronski’s ancestral village.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Ellis Island Records database first came online several years ago, I rapidly found the passenger manifest for my grandfather Michael Danko, but had difficulty finding the manifest for my grandmother Mary Danko, who arrived a few years later … Continue reading \n
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