I'd like to start off this blog with a bang. And so I will share with you yesterday's exciting new discovery.
Last month, I sent away for Roman MISCOVITCH'S Naturalization Papers, hoping for clues about The Miscovitch Immigration Story. The papers are a Find unto themselves (thanks for the suggestion, Dave Obee). However, the puzzle piece I was excited to see fall into place was the immigration date for his wife (Pelagia, or Pauline) and son (John, also known as Grampa M).
Last month, I sent away for Roman MISCOVITCH'S Naturalization Papers, hoping for clues about The Miscovitch Immigration Story. The papers are a Find unto themselves (thanks for the suggestion, Dave Obee). However, the puzzle piece I was excited to see fall into place was the immigration date for his wife (Pelagia, or Pauline) and son (John, also known as Grampa M).
Roman's papers said that his wife and son had arrived just before Christmas, 1925. That made it easy to find the transcript of the record of their arrival, and yesterday I found the scanned copy of the original ship's manifest on which they are recorded. Pretty cool on it's own.
The unexpected bonus point was in the details of the original ship's manifest. One of the columns asked for a contact person in the Old Country. Pelagia listed her father, Daniel KLIMOVICZ of Markowicze, Drogichen, Poland (now Belarus). That's a new name, as far as I know!!! Another generation further back for the elusive Belarussian ancestors.
And so, after two years of poking around records and hoping for some sort of clue as to how to find our ancestors in the Old Country, I am excited to report our first new branch in years on the Miscovitch Tree.
Na Zdorovje!
Na Zdorovje!