- There is a possiblilty that this is the Frank Jana that married Katerina Filipek. Our Frantisek (Frank) Jana was born 6 August 1855 and would have been 17 during the summer of 1872.
- This record was found using Family Tree Maker's Passenger and Immigration Lists 1538-1940 CD. The index identified the individual, age, the date of arrival and entry port. It also provided a source reference for where the data was found.
- The source was "Iowa Bound Arrivals at the Port of New York, by Michael Cassady. In Hawkeye Heritage [Iowa Genealogy Society, Des Moines] Vol 20:1, Spring 1985 pp. 28-34."
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- The above record was not found in Leo Baca's Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume V: New York 1870-1880.
- The data displayed above was transcribed from the index. The National Archives microfilm of the ship's manifest may yield a little more information.
- One important piece of data could be the embarkation port. If the ship embarked with our passenger from Hamburg, then additional data can be obtained from the Hamburg Emigration Index when the correct year become available.
- It would also be useful to perform a search of fellow passengers on the ship manifest to see if any names are familiar. It would also be useful to verify that this person was from Bohemia or Austria.
- It would also be useful to obtain the source record from the Iowa Genealogy Society.
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