Polish family

[lancalot]

I am trying to trace relatives that emigrated to Winnipeg in Canada from Poland around about 1900. My mother-in law's grandfather Peter Frej left poland with his youngest daughter Helena leaving behind his sons who were all settled.  We know his daughter got married and her married name would have been Ostrowska. My mother in law is called Genowfer and is very elderly and her dearest wish is to find out what happended to relatives.

Can anyone help!!

[J.J.]

Can find no local listings for Frej, and none for Ostrowska...
http://findaperson.canada411.ca/

On that site, there are some in vancouver, Ontario & Quebec...
We have the surname Ostrowski in Winnipeg, so if you think this may be
a relative,

Hey I just found it on the BMD!!! Note has "i" ending

PETER "Ostrowski"   married   Helena  Frej...1913

KAZIMIERZ JOHN  Hotobowich   married   Maria Frej..1919

[lancalot]

Hi JJ

What wonderful news thank you very much.  I went on the find a person in Canada site and found that there are 13 Ostrowski's living in Winnipeg. Hopefully I may be able to find one of them who is directly related to Helena.

Do you know if Winnipeg would have a site that I can post a message, some think like a newsletter for the town?

Thanks again


Lorraine

[J.J.]

http://www.weeklies.ca/times/

this is a weekly in Winnipeg...each area has it's own community paper, but they are all run by Transcontinental Inc..  Maybe they will be kind and run it in all of it's little papers...that would be awesome as your family name is spread throughout the city, it seems.  Write something great for them...lrt them know it's an elderly person who needs to find them...heartstring stuff and all that...

I used to offer to phone for people, but even though I was polite I was sometimes met with some harshness....so i retired from that! haha

Could you make your little message icon into a smilie face, now???  J.J.

[Janealogy]

Have you tired the website for Hamburg immigration?
There are listed 191 person's with the surname "Ostrowska" some migrating to USA others to Canada.

The list is only from 1903, but could be other family members joining the first group. (A on going project)

http://www.hamburg.de

Good luck
Jane (W.Auss)

[lancalot]

Hi JJ

Thanks again for the information, sorry about the icon.  In all my excitement from the news I forgot.

Lorraine

[Janealogy]

Hi lancalot,

I just checked out the Odessa files and several more finds with the surname Ostrowska. These are the links. No Frej surname but there is Frei.
If these links don't work go to http://www.odessa3.org/collections.html
Start at full text search
then type in the surname on the Inspecting the Odessa Lexicon, the four links show up to click on.


http://odessa3.org/collections/land/wprussia/link/kk-n.txt

http://odessa3.org/collections/stpete/bess/link/bess186m.txt
http://odessa3.org/collections/stpete/volhynia/link/vol188xb.txt
http://odessa3.org/collections/war/ewz/link/ewzms102.txt


I also found two Ostrowska living in Vienna. The link to this is 
http://www.herold.at/servlet/at.herold.sp.servlet.SPYPHomeServlet.

I am also searching for family who came from these area's.
Good Luck again
Jane

[J.J.]

here is the 1901 census with a Manitoba Ostrowski  imm from Galicia...1898
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/cache/index.html

[J.J.]

Would you still be interested in find out more about these families, as there is more info available all the time, and I can see if there is more to be found for you....no guarantees, but need to know that you are still interested before I start searching for you... J.J.