hannover-l - Nachricht 2007-12 00129

[Cactus Flower <barbie8674(a)hotmail.com>]

Hello,
 
What  is the name of the person  you look for?   If  these ancestors departed 
home country WWI era or after... perhaps Steven Morse website could help find.
 
Google "Steven Morse"......find site...
 
If there is any chance a N.Y. arrival...  Might try search using name of hometown.  Since you have 
found relatives of this person you search for... Try broad search using the name of the town.
 
Try broad search using just first name....and town... or first name and  beginning letters of town
you suspect these persons are from...  
 
Try...  search using nationality, age, given name and sex.....  
 
Try...searching name of ship the relatives arrived on...Perhaps the lost relative took same ship ...different year..
 
Try....search using approximate  age.. and first name...
 
Try......any and all options you might think of..
 
Last chance look.... look for hints using census data.... perhaps there are neighbors who may have come from
same area.... If I were taking the big step of relocating to a whole other country...... I think I would ask my family, distant cousins, aunts, uncles, neighbors if they might know someone who settled in that place...  
 
Put yourself in their shoes.......What would you do?  Wouldn't you be more confortable moving to a place whre you might have  something in common with someone?  My cousins...cousin...knows ...someone who was a neighbor to a cousin who is from where I am from...... 
 
Well..
 
Barbie-Lew
a.k.a.  Silly Goose
 
It might be that you never find the person you most want to find.
 
 
 
 
 
> From: krumbar(a)comcast.net> To: hannover-l(a)genealogy.net> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:55:06 -0500> Subject: Re: [HN] Hannover-L Nachrichtensammlung, Band 48, Eintrag 34> > I wonder if that's why I can't find my paternal great-grandfather's > immigration even though I can find his older brothers' and even a cousin's? > He was the youngest and 24 when he arrived (known because he married his > sweetheart who was already here almost immediately). Would that still have > been of an age to be drafted?> > I know that's why my maternal grandfather came, but he did so legally, all > permissions in order, but he was not yet 18. His father said that he had > lost two sons to wars and did not want to lose another to a warring nation. > Also, it was the 20th century when he came -- right after World War I -- so > perhaps things were different then? He had been a cabin boy with the herring > fleets in the North Sea and had a narrow escape when a bomb dropped near the > ship failed to explode. I guess that was enough for great-grandpa to send > his last son at home to America to join his sister and brother already here.> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <svcygnus(a)pocketmail.com>> To: <hannover-l(a)genealogy.net>> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:42 PM> Subject: Re: [HN] Hannover-L Nachrichtensammlung, Band 48, Eintrag 34> > > Hello Harlan,> Many young men of draft age left Hannover and other German states> during the> 19th century to avoid the draft or for other reasons. Since these men > could> not receive permission to emigrate, they left the country ilegally, so there> were no official records of their departures.> > ______________________________________________> > Hannover-L mailing list> Hannover-L(a)genealogy.net> http://list.genealogy.net/mailman/listinfo/hannover-l
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