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For questions about the process and records associated with people entering and settling in a country or place to which they were not native.
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Correct spelling of Austrian surname Wasmanski?
There is no correct spelling of your surname.
Sure, there is now. It's Wasmanski. Unless one of your modern-day relatives spell it differently, and they might.
It is possible your current spelling …
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Why would the spelling of a town in Romania be changed upon arrival in Canada?
The name of the town did not change. Nor did the correct spelling change. But the language the officials spoke did.
Sânmihaui is not a German word and, while Romania (like the rest of the Austro- …
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Cannot find an immigrant in the 1860/70 US Census
The fact that he was a farmer in Germany also doesn't help (he did not tell an immigration officer he wanted to be a farmer; this was his former occupation, and he told the clerk from the company that … owns the ship, not immigration). …
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Finding a town in Russia-Poland from 1910
I've left in my wrong turns below on purpose, to show the process of genealogical research and how to build evidence. This manifest is both correct and a red herring. It led me to some hypotheses th …
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