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Help needed to decipher handwriting of the name of vessel on attached Petition for Naturalization #usa

Keren Weiner
 

Requesting your assistance with deciphering the handwriting on the attached Petition for Naturalization for Abraham HOROWITZ, who arrived in New York on 3 June 1899.  The description of the vessel reads in part "...to Quebec and via R.R. and boat to N.Y." but the first two words of the vessel are a mystery we could sure use your help to solve.    With thanks,

Keren Weiner,  Pittsfield, MA kweiner2@...>

Abraham Horowitz Petition for Naturalization cropped _2_.jpg

Sherri Bobish
 


Keren,

Have you tried finding his passenger manifest entering Quebec?
I suggest doing a soundex search on the surname, and assume his first name may have been different.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1823240

Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Susan&David
 

Karen: There is a list of  arrivals - Quebec City and other ports, 1865 - 1900
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-quebec-port-1865-1900/Pages/introduction.aspx#a

David Rosen
Boston, MA

On 8/24/2020 1:02 PM, Keren Weiner wrote:

Requesting your assistance with deciphering the handwriting on the attached Petition for Naturalization for Abraham HOROWITZ, who arrived in New York on 3 June 1899.  The description of the vessel reads in part "...to Quebec and via R.R. and boat to N.Y." but the first two words of the vessel are a mystery we could sure use your help to solve.    With thanks,

Keren Weiner,  Pittsfield, MA kweiner2@...>

Diane Jacobs
 

Looks like the ship Dee or Off Upla or Ufla to Quebec and then by train to NY.
You need to search online for a correct possible ship and then go to stevemorse.org to search the Canadian
Passenger Manifests and the Canadian 
Border Crossings .

Diane Jacobs 



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-------- Original message --------
From: Keren Weiner <kweiner2@...>
Date: 8/24/20 1:02 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: main@...
Subject: [JewishGen.org] Help needed to decipher handwriting of the name of vessel on attached Petition for Naturalization #usa

Requesting your assistance with deciphering the handwriting on the attached Petition for Naturalization for Abraham HOROWITZ, who arrived in New York on 3 June 1899.  The description of the vessel reads in part "...to Quebec and via R.R. and boat to N.Y." but the first two words of the vessel are a mystery we could sure use your help to solve.    With thanks,

Keren Weiner,  Pittsfield, MA kweiner2@...>
--
Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
Susan&David
 

I managed to locate the full-size document on-line.  Based on the wife's name that I believe is Fannie, I think the initial letter of the ship name is 'F'

David rosen,
Boston, MA

On 8/25/2020 9:25 AM, Diane Jacobs wrote:

Looks like the ship Dee or Off Upla or Ufla to Quebec and then by train to NY.
You need to search online for a correct possible ship and then go to stevemorse.org to search the Canadian
Passenger Manifests and the Canadian 
Border Crossings .

Diane Jacobs 



Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

-------- Original message --------
From: Keren Weiner <kweiner2@...>
Date: 8/24/20 1:02 PM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: [JewishGen.org] Help needed to decipher handwriting of the name of vessel on attached Petition for Naturalization #usa

Requesting your assistance with deciphering the handwriting on the attached Petition for Naturalization for Abraham HOROWITZ, who arrived in New York on 3 June 1899.  The description of the vessel reads in part "...to Quebec and via R.R. and boat to N.Y." but the first two words of the vessel are a mystery we could sure use your help to solve.    With thanks,

Keren Weiner,  Pittsfield, MA kweiner2@...>
--
Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

record-image_.jpg

Diane Jacobs
 

Could be Fee or Tee, also. 
Diane




Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

-------- Original message --------
From: Susan&David <rosens@...>
Date: 8/25/20 10:06 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: main@...
Subject: Re: [JewishGen.org] Help needed to decipher handwriting of the name of vessel on attached Petition for Naturalization #usa

I managed to locate the full-size document on-line.  Based on the wife's name that I believe is Fannie, I think the initial letter of the ship name is 'F'

David rosen,
Boston, MA

On 8/25/2020 9:25 AM, Diane Jacobs wrote:
Looks like the ship Dee or Off Upla or Ufla to Quebec and then by train to NY.
You need to search online for a correct possible ship and then go to stevemorse.org to search the Canadian
Passenger Manifests and the Canadian 
Border Crossings .

Diane Jacobs 



Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

-------- Original message --------
From: Keren Weiner <kweiner2@...>
Date: 8/24/20 1:02 PM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: [JewishGen.org] Help needed to decipher handwriting of the name of vessel on attached Petition for Naturalization #usa

Requesting your assistance with deciphering the handwriting on the attached Petition for Naturalization for Abraham HOROWITZ, who arrived in New York on 3 June 1899.  The description of the vessel reads in part "...to Quebec and via R.R. and boat to N.Y." but the first two words of the vessel are a mystery we could sure use your help to solve.    With thanks,

Keren Weiner,  Pittsfield, MA kweiner2@...>
--
Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey


--
Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
Paul Silverstone
 

It is difficult to make out the second word, but I think the first word is not the name of a ship.   It is also difficult to determine the year
of passage although his second child was born in NY in 1902.    There were no ships on the North Atlantic run
with a short name like this beginning with F.   Bonsor's "North Atlantic Seaway" in the  index for F like this.

Paul Silverstone


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Keren Weiner
 

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-quebec-port-1865-1900/Pages/introduction.aspx#a

David, this is a great resource with lists and images, and I feel sure with some digging I will find him here.  Another great website to bookmark.
Keren Weiner
 

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 08:25 PM, Sherri Bobish wrote:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1823240

Sherri, I did not find Abraham Horowitz at the link you provided, BUT, I did find a cousin who came in a few years later and got some clues that I can track to another branch of the family.  Thank you so much!  And I'll bookmark that link.
Keren
Keren Weiner
 

re:  Paul Silverstone's referencing F.   Bonsor's "North Atlantic Seaway" 

These volumes look like a great resource to have, especially in this case.  I see several of them for sale individually on e-Bay and also as a five volume set.
Thank you Paul, and thank you to the group for these links and ideas.  Sleuths extraordinaire!

Keren Weiner

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