Trace Great-Grandmother’s Ancestral Hometown

I’m piecing together my family history and need help pinpointing the exact town in Russia / Poland that my great-grandmother left when she sailed to Canada in 1904. I can give you her full name and confirmed birthdate, but that’s all the geographic detail my family has retained; we have no clue about the province, district, or parish she called home.

Your first task is to mine immigration and passenger-list collections—ship manifests, border-crossing cards, naturalization files, and any related travel documents—for clues that tie her name and birthdate to a specific locality. If those records prove inconclusive, I’m open to recommendations on expanding the search to complementary sources such as census snapshots or parish registers, but the priority remains the outbound and inbound travel paperwork.

Please return:

• A concise research log noting every source consulted and the search terms you used
• Scans or database screenshots of any relevant documents you uncover
• A short narrative summary that states the most likely hometown and explains how each piece of evidence supports that conclusion

Accuracy and clear citation are critical; I want to be able to retrace every step. If you have questions or need additional family details along the way, just ask—happy to help you connect the dots.