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Question: Can someone with a membership at ancestry!.com help me out!?
I'm looking for someone named Michal (or possibly Michael) Szewczyk!. He was born in Kozlow, Galicia (which is either part of Poland or Ukraine right now) in the year 1879!. he had 4 children, 3 of whom were born in the United states (the fourth is Canadian!.) he immigrated first to Pennsylvania and then moved to Canada!. Can anyone with a membership at ancestry!.com (or ancestry!.ca) help me find any documents relating to him, or someone in his family!? I would sign up for the free trial, but i dont have a credit card!. thanks so much!Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I may have his passenger list record!. Actually there are a few, I'll post as much as I can!. With the ship names and dates of arrival, you can look all of these up for free at http://www!.ellisisland!.org

This one is actually clearly from Kozlow, so I'm putting it first:

Name: Michal Szewczuk
Arrival Date: 20 Feb 1906
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamburg
Ethnicity/Race-/Nationality: Polish
Ship Name: Amerika
Search Ship Database: View the Amerika in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 25
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_666
Page Number: 96


Sure glad I didn't have to transcribe this one!.!.!.the writing is decidedly "German" and hard to read!. But it does have a town that looks like Kozlow (I'd have guessed Klibow, but take all passenger list towns with a grain of salt)!.

Name: Michal Szewczuk
Arrival Date: 7 Dec 1899
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Bremen
Place of Origin: Galicia
Ethnicity/Race-/Nationality: Galician
Ship Name: Trave
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 22
Microfilm Serial: 15
Microfilm Roll: T715_95
Page Number: 119

This one is a Ruthenian from Romanow, but the name is right and so is the age:
Name: Michal Szewczuk
Arrival Date: 1 Jul 1913
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1889
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamburg
Ethnicity/Race-/Nationality: Polish
Ship Name: Salamanca
Search Ship Database: Search the Salamanca in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Nativity: Russia
Line: 14
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_2120
Birth Location: Russia
Birth Location Other: romanow
Page Number: 66

Name: Michal Szewczuk
Arrival Date: 21 Sep 1910
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Rotterdam
Ethnicity/Race-/Nationality: Russian
Ship Name: Volturno
Search Ship Database: Search the Volturno in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Nativity: Russia
Line: 13
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_1559
Birth Location: Russia
Birth Location Other: moskalowka
Page Number: 53

Name: Mikolaj Szewczuk
Arrival Date: 26 Dec 1912
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Bremen
Ethnicity/Race-/Nationality: Russian
Ship Name: George Washington
Search Ship Database: View the George Washington in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Nativity: Russia
Line: 9
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_1995
Birth Location: Russia
Birth Location Other: partowin
Page Number: 170

Here's a possible 1930 Census record on him!. If it's the right wife and kids, let me know and I'll look for more records:
Name: Michael Szewczuk
Home in 1930: Pottstown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania
Age: 45
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1885
Birthplace: Galicia / Galizien / Halychyna; Poland
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary
Race: White
Parents' birthplace: Galicia/Poland
Household Members: Name Age
Michael Szewczuk 45
Mary Szewczuk 39
Nicholas Szewczuk 18
Annie Szewczuk 16
Catherine Szewczuk 4Www@QuestionHome@Com

rootsweb!.com is free!.

1920 U!. S!. Census for
Dickson City Ward 3, Lackawanna Co!., PA, USA

Michael Szwec b!. 1876 Poland
was 44 in 1920
occupation miner
rented
immigrated to USA in 1881 (which means he was 5 yrs old so he came w/ his parents)
m!. Veranika b!. Poland was 34 in 1920 (b!. circa 1886)
It listed his parents place of birth as Poland, but not their names!.
Children: all b!. in PA,USA
Anthony 15, Frank 13, Katie 11, Mary 9, John 8, Josefa 6 yrs!. 4 mo!. 12 days, Victoria 5 yrs!. 2 mo!. 12 days, Peter 1 yr!. 6 mo!. 12 days!.

Hope this helps!.Www@QuestionHome@Com