Steve,
There are direct and indirect Hamburg passenger
manifests for these years which I had to
use to find my greatgrandparents and
granfather arriving from Hamberg to Hull
and then
from Liverpool
to NYC in 1888. To find them (this is before the internet
databases) I used
Volume 4 from the 6 volume set of Migration
from the Russian Empire edited by Glazier.
You would need Vol. 3 and 4 to check
out names by yourself or use ancestry.com and
familysearch.org to search for the
passenger manifest from England
to US. There is an
index of names but then you have to be
creative as spelling can be very different from the
original or the one you know about.
I did not know their surname but using
Vol. 4 and knowing that they came during the Great
Blizzard of 1888 in NYC, I was able to go
through all the passenger manifest from March
31 back to March 11 by looking at family
with 3 or more children. There I found them and the
name they used in Europe which was
different from the name they used in the US after they
arrived as I knew the names of 8 of their
9 childen
Hope this helpful to you.
Diane Jacobs
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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020
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Subject: [JewishGen.org] Tracking
a passenger across the Atlantic through England #liverpool
I found a passenger, Yanckel Farfel, on a Hamburg list. I would like to track him
across the ocean. According to a list I found on Ancestry, he departed in June
1887 on the ship Flamingo headed for New
York. However, I can find neither him nor the
Flamingo arriving in New York.
The record in Ancestry indicates that the arrival place is "Hull (Amerika) via Liverpool",
spelled and punctuated exactly like that.
I believe that this individual, upon arriving in New York, may be our relative who changed
his name to Jacob Fink. I can see him in various US and NYS censuses, and can
calculate his birth date at about 1869 and his arrival date at about 1887 or
perhaps 1888, but not consistently. I have not yet acquired his naturalization
papers from Brooklyn which would indicate the
ship and date he said he arrived on, but in the interim, what does the arrival
place indicate? Does it say that he arrived in Hull,
on the eastern coast of England,
and traveled overland to Liverpool before departing for America?
Steve Stein
Highland Park, NJ
