I am new to this endeavour - searching for ancestors - and it's taken over my life!
My grandmother, Whilemina "Minni" Carolina Ernestine Prill came from the Posnen area of what was Gernany / now Poland, around 1887, along with two of her sisters, Augusta "Gussie" Wilhemina and Maria Louise Emelie"Amelia" Prill. The three were very good cooks and worked as Harvey girls in railroad station restaurants between Chicago and Omaha, finally settling in the Springfield, Illinois area.
I am looking for information preceding their arrival (and that of there mother and younger siblings) into the U.S. at Baltimore, 1887. I have checked passenger lists for that and pre-ceding/later years and find nothing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thans so much.
Marcy Werness