{"id":1685,"date":"2005-11-13T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2005-11-13T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T16:47:00","slug":"three-cheers-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/13\/three-cheers-for-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cheers for research!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, despite the name change and estrangement from my family, I do continue to do research into my family’s origin.<\/p>\n

I am building a fairly extensive website on our families.<\/p>\n

Today, I got mail from the Ellis Island organization. They have put a new search mechanism together.<\/p>\n

Well, my Great -great grandfather (dad’s dad’s dad) has always been elusive. To this day, I’m not sure how he got into the country. But I tried again to find his wife.<\/p>\n

Today I found something.<\/p>\n

Line 2 of the Manifest of the Pretoria<\/a> (Please note this is a big jpeg)<\/p>\n

fiannaharpar<\/a> has been helping me read the horrible hand writing. shimmeringjemmy<\/a> really helped by fixing the contrast on the graphic.<\/p>\n

So… if anyone wants to take a stab at helping us read this… I’d be more than happy.
\nOf most interest are columns 2, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16<\/p>\n

Comments concerning the details are in the comments section. Feel free to try to interpret before looking at the comments so as to not be influenced on initial interpretation. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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