[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Passports or Identity Papers

[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