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Interestingly, officials from the US Migration Service often enter faulty place names, so several distortions are found: Ezerene, Novoalexandrovsk, Mawaleksandrowsk, Newolexander, Bikiany, Dusjat, Antalup, Salocha, Ontazava. Do you easily recognize these place names?
If you have seen movies, series, videos that represent the 19th century. pab. – XX a. pr. The lives of American immigrants have definitely seen episodes where newcomers had to go through a check from the US Immigration Service.
There, his health, personal details, the purpose of the trip and many other things were carefully checked to help decide if this visitor to the country was desirable. After all, people were often not allowed to enter and had to wait for another ship and return to their homeland.
The Migration Service questionnaires also had to indicate if the person was in prison, if he was an anarchist and what was his attitude towards polygamy.
Ellis Island in New York Bay from 1892 to 1954. It operated the busiest immigration checkpoint in the United States.
Photo from A.Eidintas’ book “Lithuanian Columbuses” / Lithuanian Americans
Ellis Island archives contain a wealth of information on people of different nationalities who have emigrated to the United States: Turkish, Italian, Irish, Swedish, German, Austro-Hungarian, and other nations.
A large number of questionnaires also contain data on approximately one hundred and one-half Lithuanians and other nationalities in the Zarasai region who left for the United States. Of course, we will not present them all in this article, but we would like to present the migration routes of various peasants in the 20th century. at first.
A number of interesting facts emerge from these questionnaires. For example, it is possible to discover and follow the instructions in which the zarasai sought a better life within the United States, or to observe the departure of entire rural families just beyond the Atlantic.
To preserve some of the authenticity, we provide some of the addresses, first and last names registered by US immigration officials, in some parentheses Lithuanian names will be specified.
The Zarasai people who traveled to America
1) The thirty-six-year-old Jew Chait Mottel of Novoalexandrovsk, along with his wife Riwke (probably Rivka) of nineteen, left the port of Libau (then called Liepaja in Latvia) and in 1911. June 5 arrived at the port from New York.
The family has indicated that they intend to stay with Chait’s brother, who lives at 26 Holland Street in Rochester, New York. The couple has $ 25 each, the woman’s ticket was paid for by her father.
2) Twenty-eight year old Lithuanian farm worker Peter Keiriss (probably Petras Kairys) should be from Novoaleksandrovsk in 1907. August 8 Arrived in New York Harbor. The final destination of your trip is Boston, Massachusetts.
3) Thirty-six Poles from Novoalexandrovsk Nastasia Woitkewitz in 1910. December 17 Arrived in New York Harbor. From here, she will go with her husband Piotr Woitkewitz, who lives in Hanover (now West Hanover Street in Chicago) at 4355 Street, Chicago, Illinois.
4) Jews from Ežerėniškės, sister and brother, Fauba Zelda, eighteen years old, and Zelik Penai, seventeen years old, 1923. July 6 He arrived from the port of Antwerp in Belgium to the port of New York and will go to his brother Sam Pen, who lives on East 117th Street in New York. In total, brother and sister have $ 50.
5) Lithuanian Marijona Šimkonytė, unmarried for twenty-one years, came from Liepaja to New York from Liepaja in 1922. April 12 From here, she will go with her brother Anton Shimkun (probably Antanas Shimkonis), who lives at 14 Chelmford Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Photo from the Zarasai Region Museum / Christmas celebration in Zarasai in 1925.
6) 1921 June 17 Bleichman, a Jewish Jew, arrived in New York Harbor. Fifty-five-year-old Chane Gessie Bleichman (who she says is single but may be widowed or divorced) travels to her married daughter, Ena Lavine, who lives at 38 Kennedy Street, Hartford, Connecticut.
Incidentally, Mrs. Gessie arrived not alone, but with a squad of young family members. Some are probably their own children, and some, judging by age, may be grandchildren: Chaie Sura, twenty, single, Mendel, seventeen, Gitel, thirteen, and Lea, nine.
7) Chane Schneider, a Jew from Ežerėnai who was married for twenty-nine years, came to New York from Liepaja in 1922. January 7 From here, she will go with her husband Louis Goldmark, who lives at 2923 Ulman Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The woman may have indicated a maiden name in the documents.
8) Tzipa-Leja Lerman, a twelve year old boy from Ežerėni. January 7 Arrived in New York Harbor. From there, he traveled to his father, Nathan Laruman, who lives at 613 Harrison Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.
9) The Jewish brothers Barones de Dusetos, the seventeen-year-old baker David and the eighteen-year-old Schmul saddles, 1905. August 1 He arrived in New York. From here, they will travel to their cousin Moshe, who lives at 300 Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. The cousin paid them a travel ticket.
It should be noted that in 1905. In the spring of 2006, pogroms broke out in Dusetos against local Jews, during which the baron’s family suffered. Icchak Baron was killed (buried in the Dusetos Jewish cemetery), so the youth’s departure may be linked to this disaster. You can read more about the Dusetos pogrom by clicking on the link.
10) Twenty-four-year-old Yuan Shileikis (probably Jonas Šileikis), a native of the village of Trinkuškiai, an illiterate farmworker, single, in 1907. February 21, arrived in New York, from where he would travel to his cousin John Bernaton, who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. 1909 November 16 Jonas Šileikis’ cousin, Wicenty Schileikis, came to New York (probably Vincentas Šileikis).
When examining the questionnaires, it is notable that at that time at least five Šileikiai from the town of Trinkuškiai left for the United States. Unfortunately, it was not possible to find data on the great artist from the Zarasai region, Mikas Šileikis, who went to the United States in 1913.
Prepared by Kęstas Vasilevskis, Museologist at the Zarasai Regional Museum (travel guide) according to the archives of the US Ellis Immigration Checkpoint.
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