[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Daniel Becker

[Jerry Frank]

Snipping most of the good posting and inserting a couple of comments 
in between the remainder.


At 02:02 PM 27/08/2006, Wilbert and Marilyn Roth wrote:
>On the Ellis Island site, registration is free, but you need to 
>register in order to view additonal information.  Also, sometimes, 
>instead of giving the full name,  you need to check for some other 
>item such as BECKER arriving in 1909 because only exact spelling 
>matches may appear.



Just in case anyone missed it in my previous posting, the Ellis 
Island search at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html 
allows you to do sounds-like searches.  A search using the Ellis 
Island search engine will only return exact spellings.



>I cannot find any Nowin or a Novin without a suffix, but a major 
>city of Nikolayev (over 300,000 population in my atlas)  is in the 
>southern Ukraine. MapQuest shows several Nikolayevs.   There is a 
>Noviny, Ukraine, which is not too far from Poland.



Most atlases are not (nor even MapQuest or GOOGLE Maps) adequate for 
village searches.   ShtetlSeeker 
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html in combination 
with MapQuest is an excellent source as are the maps on the SGGEE 
website.  Once again ShtetlSeeker allows for sounds-like searches 
whereas a direct search on something like MapQuest requires an exact 
spelling match, a difficult thing to achieve considering the 
variations possible with Slavic place names.



>
>Karl STUMPP's Emigration fr. Germany to Russia, 1763 - 1862:



Stumpp's book does not cover the Germans in Volhynia.  I think we are 
95% convinced that the Becker family is from there though we still 
need to package a complete picture with more records before we can 
say with absolute certainty.





Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca