[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Passports or Identity Papers

[rlyster at telusplanet.net]

Now here is an interesting twist.......I called the Ted Liss from my area to 
see if there was a name change from Less.  Just curiosity more than anything 
else to see if there was some connection to the Less's that are being 
discussed.  This is what I found out:

Ted's father and grandfather came to Sangudo area from Milewakee from 
somewhere in Poland (Austrian/German heritage), and changed their name.  He 
was a road salesman and his name was just to difficult to spell so Pozarski 
became Liss.....go figure!

Rita Lyster, Barrhead


Quoting GVLESS at aol.com:

> This note may be the end of my quest for my husband's father's immigration  
> records - or maybe not.  Just got an e-mail from my husband's brother  (still
> 
> living) who said he recalls a cousin of theirs mentioned once that he 
> thought 
> that "Uncle Fred" came over with a family group.  Could it be  possible then
> 
> that there would be no way of discovering "Fred's" record if  listed with a 
> family??  For a 19-yr. old to travel in those days maybe it  would have been
> the 
> thing to do to hook up with some family, especially if he  did not have a 
> passport or identity paper.......
> But that family name - who knows that now!
>  
> I do know that Fred Less arrived in the late spring that 1903 year in  
> Alpena, Michigan according to a story told by his brother long ago.  So it 
> would be 
> possible he was on the ship Batavia that sailed in May from Hamburg,  
> arriving NY June 8.  But if with a family group???
> his name may be most difficult to find on a ship's manifest list.
>  
> Well, even tho I do not have to prepare for our Thanksgiving tomorrow I am  
> enjoying  this computer contact with you all.  My small family will be  with
> me 
> at my new home in a retirement facility eating turkey of course.   This is a
> 
> new role for me enjoying a lifestyle that is so different.  And -  having
> time 
> to do research, I hope.  Thank you all for your comments.
> Have loved hearing from you.    I promised my husband just  before he died in
> 
> 2003 that I would do more research on the Less name - so here  I am finally 
> with the time to do it.
>  
> Virginia Less
> 
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