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Elias Meyers 1908 Immigration Record Canada to US

Elias Meyers 1908 Immigration Record Canada to US

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 9:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Meyers Bright Goodman
I think that this record is on Ancestry but is incorrectly indexed. There are such records for his wife Eva Meyers and four children: Esther, Leah, Abraham, and Jack for September, 1908. They emigrated from Winnipeg to St Louis. The US naturalization form gives his arrival date as 6 March 1908. He was in St Louis by May, 1908. I have searched for all records with surname Meyers and/or given name Elias for 1907 and 1908 and there is nothing for Elias Meyers. Help finding this record would be greatly appreciated. It will tell me the name of the relative that Elias Meyers first stayed with in St Louis.

Re: Elias Meyers 1908 Immigration Record Canada to US

Posted: 22 Aug 2014 11:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Meyers, Meyer
Hello,

For other researchers I'd like to offer an FYI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis

I'm just checking Census records in the US and see there were .hundreds. of people in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1910 with the MEYERS name and about the same for the MEYER spelling. So far I'm not seeing a .. Seth .. but in 1910 there were 3 women, named Eva MEYER, in St. Louis.

What I'm not finding is too many with these names - as being born in Canada. And, you didn't state in your query whether Seth and Eva were born in Canada. And, you didn't state their approximate ages. And, if not born in Canada, when did they arrive there?

Two of the Eva MEYER's in St. Louis in 1910 do not match up, and I can't read the page for the 3rd one.

I'm checking at www.familysearch.org and there are people with those names showing up, but they seem to be all of people born after 1900. This is one record:

vent Year: 1900
Event Place: Precinct 5 City of St. Louis Ward 3, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Years Married: 3
Birth Date: Mar 1873
Birthplace: Canada Eng
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1897
Immigration Year: 1890
Father's Birthplace: Indiana
Mother's Birthplace: Canada Eng
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Frank E Meyers Head M 27 Canada Eng
Mary E Meyers Wife F 19 Missouri

... That's all I can offer right now.

Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)

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Re: Elias Meyers 1908 Immigration Record Canada to US

Posted: 22 Aug 2014 5:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
Betty. For your FYI, Robert Jerin answered this query on the general board, even furnishing the record where the whole family arrived together. Don
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