12 47 am pst [ recipe for the end of a month ]
Ingredients:
- 1 bed, flannel sheets and heavy blanket included
- 2-5 pillows
- 1 small breakfast
- 1 checkbook
- 1 pen
- 1 television set with cable
- 1-7 healthy obsessions
- 1 notebook filled with research
- 1 comfortable pair of jeans
- 1 funky 70's shirt
- 2 well worn shoes (1 pair total)
- 1 pair of black sunglasses
- 1 sad car that still drives and has working radio
- 1/2 tank of gas
- 1 wallet containing at least $7.52
- 1 digital camera with free space on the memory stick
- 1 local health food store
- 1-3 credit cards
- internet research knowledge to taste
Prepare by turning off the ringer on the phone the night before. Insert self into bed, wrap in sheets, place small pillow between knees, fold larger pillow in half and lay head on it.
In the morning, allow self to sleep in to a respectable hour. Extract self from bed slowly. Turn on ringer on telephone. Contact employer; discuss money. Agree to drop a check off at the studio after consuming breakfast. Prepare small breakfast. Turn on television. Notice that the cable is out. Turn off television. Consume small breakfast. Extract one check from checkbook and complete it using pen, remembering to record the transaction in register.
Dress in comfortable pair of jeans, funky 70's shirt, and well worn shoes. Don black sunglasses. Gather notebook and place self in sad car. Drive to studio, passing former high school. Drop off check, not staying long because the sad car is parked in a permit only zone.
Use as much gas as need to get self to the nearest Family History Library. Park and enter library with notebook. Doff black sunglasses. Conduct extensive research and heartily feed healthy obsession with genealogy. Order 2 reels of microfilm containing church records from Austria, using $7.52 in wallet. Leave library.
Stop to admire sunset. Take photos with digital camera. Listen to comedy on the radio on the drive home. Stop at local health food store. Make the mistake of shopping when hungry. Purchase large quantities of food with credit card of choice. Return home.
Mull over the day's finds. Begin internet research to further gathered information. Compile the following information:
US immigration quick links:
The "Ryndam" was a 12,340 gross ton ship, built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast in 1901 for the Holland America Line. She commenced her maiden voyage from Rotterdam to New York on 10 Oct. 1901. Although the name was spelt as "Ryndam" by the builders, it should have been "Rijndam" and although this was never amended, it was spelt this way in large white letters on the ship's side during the Great War for identification purposes.
My great grandfather voyaged on the S.S. Ryndam from Rotterdam, Netherlands on 26 June 1902 to New York on 6 July 1902. [He can be found on LDS reel #1,404,038 on a page marked with a "G" in the upper right hand corner and on line #19.] He and his family apparently traveled from the same city with Frans Weishapel and his wife Theresia Weishapel. They were both laborers. Weishapel was joining his stepbrother and my ggf was joining his cousin. The step brother and cousin were one and the same: Georg(e) Reiwer?/Reisner of 30 S St. Bowery, Oshkosh, WI. [Oshkosh was spelled Oshkosch on the manifest.] I am hoping to find how Weishapel and Pollinger were related to Reisner and each other. I believe Weishapel is a variation of Weisheipl or Weishapple.
The immigration manifest used to record my ggf's voyage contains the following information:
LIST OR MANIFEST OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION
Required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under Act of Congress approved March 3, 1893, to be delivered to the Commissioner of Immigration by the Commanding Officer of any vessel having such passengers on board upon arrival at a port in the United States
S.S. ___(vessel)___ sailing from ___(city)___, ___(date)___ 190_
Arriving at Port of ___(city)___, ___(date)___ 190_
| No. on List |
Name in Full |
Age Yrs. | Mos. |
Sex |
Married or Single |
| Calling or Occupation |
Able to
Read | Write |
Nationality |
Last Residence |
Seaport
for landing in the United States |
| Final
destination in the United States (State, City or Town) |
Whether
having a ticket to such final destination |
By
whom was passage paid |
Whether in possession of money, if so, whether more than $30
and how much if $30 or less |
Whether ever before
in the United States and if so, when and where |
| Whether going to join a relative
and if so, what relative, their name and address |
Ever in Prison or Almshouse or
supported by Charity
If Yes, state which |
Whether a Polygamist |
| Whether under Contract,
express or implied, to labor in the United States |
Condition of
Health
Mental and Physical |
Deformed or
Crippled
Nature and Cause |
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