Dear fellow researchers,
My ancestor Louis Kramer was born on July 28 1877. He immigrated
leaving the port of Antwerp and arrived in the United States on August
20 1898. His wife's name was Annie and his children were Isador, Max,
Abe, and Bessie. I have found all relevant documents except his
passenger manifest. I have searched ancestry.com, Stephen P.
Morse one step pages all ports of entry and Ellis Island databases.
If I know the date the ship arrived, the port of departure, but not
the ship name is there a database I could use so that I could search all
ship manifests for passengers arriving in the States on August 20
1898? Thank you for your help.
Marilyn Levinson
Spring Lake NC

Not every name on every manifest has been transcribed. I found that
one name I was researching was on a page with large section missing
(the names column).

My solution, since I knew the boat name & arrival, I went here:
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3D7488
Then used the tools on the right hand side to find the boat and looked
through all the pages. I looked in the "home town" column until I
found the town I was looking for, I could extrapolate the person from
that info.

Laurie Sosna
San Francisco, CA

Researching SOSNA, LEVIN, KOBB, FRIEDSON


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Marilyn Levinson
Wallachlevinson@... <ukraine@...> wrote:

Dear fellow researchers,
My ancestor Louis Kramer was born on July 28 1877. He immigrated
leaving the port of Antwerp and arrived in the United States on August
20 1898. His wife's name was Annie and his children were Isador, Max,
Abe, and Bessie. I have found all relevant documents except his
passenger manifest. I have searched ancestry.com, Stephen P.
Morse one step pages all ports of entry and Ellis Island databases.
If I know the date the ship arrived, the port of departure, but not
the ship name is there a database I could use so that I could search all
ship manifests for passengers arriving in the States on August 20
1898? Thank you for your help.
Marilyn Levinson
Spring Lake NC

Marilyn Levinson was having trouble locating the manifest for her ancestor Louis Kramer, who came to the U.S. in 1898 according to the data she had already found.

One approach that I have found productive is to find the Hebrew or Yiddish name of the elusive ancestor and use that in the search. I was fortunate in finding a photo of the gravestone for Louis and Anna Kramer at an online resource. Anna was Chana and Louis was Aharon Yehudah (and Yehudah is often associated with the name Leib, hence the transformation to Louis). This was the key.

Aaron Kreimer and his wife Chane arrived in NYC on 7 September 1898 on the Westernland, sailing >from Antwerp (the port Marilyn already knew).

Stephan Parnes
Lancaster, PA

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Thank you Stephen for reminding us all how to think outside the box. This thread is closed.

Go to Ellis Island, either .com or .gov. They have records on everyone that
passed through there. The detail available is unbelieveable. I even found
out my Dad had $15 in his pocket. Search by name.

Ernie Fine

May I respectfully suggest that this thread has been closed with unseemly haste?
If you read Marilyn Levinson's posting of 18 August you will see that
she specifies the port of departure (Antwerp, Belgium) but not that of
arrival in the USA.
Although more came via New York than via any other port, a significant
number came through one of the 300 other ports. Boston,MA, Portland,ME
and Galveston,TX spring to mind, and there are many others.
Also a number (like my great-uncle Schmuil JAROSZEWSKI) came via
Quebec or other Canadian ports and made their way to the USA overland
(see my article 'Not >from Odessa After All', Shemot Vol.20 No.3 &
Vol.21 No.1) - in Schmuil's case, via Rhode Island, eventually to
California.
This link might help
http://www.genesearch.com/ports.html

Good luck, Gut Shabbos & happy ancestor-spotting!
Richard Cooper (NB: Not related to any COOPERs!)
Midhurst, UK
MILLET, ENGELBERG, BLUMENKEHL, SUSSWEIN, WACKS & PITERZIL >from Tarnow,
Dabrowa Tarnowska and Lezajsk
LEZTER, SALENDER, RINENBERG, EISEN & KRAETTER >from Rzeszow and Kolbuszowa
YAROSHEVSKY, SHAPOCHNIKOW & GRANITUR >from Odessa and Zlatopol/Novomirgorod
LEWINSTEIN >from Berdichev
ADLER, FINKELSTEIN, PARYLLE, WEINTRAUB & ZILZ >from Tarnopol and Trembowla
BORENSTEIN, MATELEVITCH,GODZINSKIJ & ZIMNOWICZ and >from Warsaw and Radun

One correction to my previous e-mail on this, if I may.
My great-uncle Schmuil JAROSZEWSKI came to North America not via
Quebec but via Montreal.
However, his port of departure >from Europe was Antwerp.

Good luck, Gut Shabbos & happy ancestor-spotting!
Richard Cooper (NB: Not related to any COOPERs!)
Midhurst, UK
MILLET, ENGELBERG, BLUMENKEHL, SUSSWEIN, WACKS & PITERZIL >from Tarnow,
Dabrowa Tarnowska and Lezajsk
LEZTER, SALENDER, RINENBERG, EISEN & KRAETTER >from Rzeszow and Kolbuszowa
YAROSHEVSKY, SHAPOCHNIKOW & GRANITUR >from Odessa and Zlatopol/Novomirgorod
LEWINSTEIN >from Berdichev
ADLER, FINKELSTEIN, PARYLLE, WEINTRAUB & ZILZ >from Tarnopol and Trembowla
BORENSTEIN, MATELEVITCH,GODZINSKIJ & ZIMNOWICZ and >from Warsaw and Radun