I'm trying to track down more information on my great-grandmother https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blazy-9 . Family oral history indicates that she departed Bremen and arrived with two sisters and possibly mother in Ellis Island as a late teen, or sometime before 1914 (when she got married in New Jersey). At some point prior to this, her father had arrived and was working in NJ.
Searching https://stevemorse.org/ellis2/ellisgold.html for surnames starting with 'blas' or 'blaz', arriving between 1900 and 1914 does not turn her up - it does find
| Blazy, Marie |
Grosschlagendorf, Hungary |
Who is perhaps related - it's the correct town at the right time! But that ship doesn't have anybody else in the manifest with a matching name. I also don't find her father, Mathias who we admittedly have weak evidence for.
There's a group of "Blasy" (Maria age 28, Paul age 6 and Marie age 2) who arrived in 1899 from Hunfalu which is adjacent to Grossschlagendorf and are also perhaps related, but are not Susie.
What should I make of this? Did my ancestor not get recorded, or is it likely that they arrived at a different port for some reason? Am I searching badly?
Additional context that may be useful: Susie and her husband spoke (Carpathian) German when they immigrated, and considered themselves Hungarian. I have her baptism record linked on her profile with some alternate name spellings on it.
