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From: Gary Komar <>
Subject: Re: [GV] Saratov on the Volga
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:26:14 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <711855.21467.qm@web31003.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Hi Diane

You might start with the Library and National Archives Canada website. Their Canadian Genealogy Centre (www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy) has ship passenger lists from 1865 to 1935 for east coast ports. You can also send for the booklet - Tracing Your Ancestors in Canada.

The Ships List is another site that might be useful. While most lists show the port of arrival in North America, some give the name of the ship and point of embarkation from Europe. In tracing the movement of my own Volga German relatives from Europe, I had to look year by year for the names of the ships arriving at Canadian ports, and the list of passengers on each ship. It helps if you have some idea of the year they arrived.

You are probably aware the Province of Manitoba has a genealogical guide to help you research. (www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/genealogy)

Hope this helps. If I can be of any further assistance, please e-mail me direct.

P.S. My maternal grandparents (Schwin/Schween & Kuhlmann) came from Volga-German colonies of Holstein and Rosenberg (south of Saratov) in 1903 and moved to Rhein, Saskatchwean about 1918.

Gary Komar, Winnipeg, Manitoba


--- On Tue, 5/6/08, Diane Marvin <> wrote:

> From: Diane Marvin <>
> Subject: [GV] Saratov on the Volga
> To:
> Received: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 7:56 AM
> Dear listers:
>
> I am new to this German Volga site. I am trying to find
> some information on my Father's parents ...sirname
> Miller, first name Andreas. I found some information that
> they possibly came from Saratov. Andreas and his wife
> Sofia came to Canada in 1899 or 1900 along with their young
> son Heinrich. Does anyone know where they would have
> embarked to arrive in Canada?
>
> I found them on the 1901 Canada Census in Manitoba, then in
> the 1906 Canada Census in the Regina Saskatchewan census.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Diane
>
>
>
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