Today, I received a message from Drew Smith (one of\u00c2\u00a0the Genealogy Guys<\/a>) who told me that he found Stefania’s Passenger Manifest on the Ellis Island<\/a> site, and indeed he had!\u00c2\u00a0 Stefania arrived on the SS Barbarossa on May 22, 1901 (a few months earlier than she reported in her naturalization papers)!<\/p>\n S. S. Barbarossa<\/p><\/div>\n Passenger Manifest for Stefania Chmielewska – 1901<\/em><\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the\u00c2\u00a0Passenger Manifest for Stefania Chmielewska – 1901<\/a> .\u00a0 The manifest shows that:<\/p>\n The Ellis Island indexes have Stefania listed as follows:<\/p>\n The Ellis Island index\u00c2\u00a0contains three transcription errors .\u00a0 I’ll write to them and ask them to correct these errors .\u00a0 The folks at Ellis Island are happy to correct transcription errors, but they won’t change misspellings or errors\u00c2\u00a0in the manifests, themselves.<\/p>\n But, notice the checkmark in the first column of the manifest, in front of Stefania’s name .\u00a0 This doesn’t look good for Stefania, because this check mark means that Stefania was detained at Ellis Island.<\/p>\n Tomorrow:\u00a0 What happened to Stefania when she was detained<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In her Naturalization Papers, Great Aunt Stephania couldn’t remember the ship on which she emigrated to the United States, although she stated that she arrived at New York from Bremen on September 16, 1901 .\u00a0 Two ships did arrive at … Continue reading ![\"S.](\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/PHO-SS-Barbarossa.jpg\")
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