Looking for Great-Grandmothers Family History

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Hello MapleLeafs,
When did your relatives immigrated to Canada? Have you been able to find immigration records? Sometimes immigration records have birth information(date and place of birth) and the names of the relatives.

Thank you both for the responses.

Unfortunately, Andrey, that is what I'm afraid of. I have the immigration documents and they are of no help for my search. I'm stuck at this point doing exactly that: Trying to find someone without names.

What I've tried to do is find separate pieces of information and see if there's any matches between them. So I'm looking for something like a list of names and locations and then I can match them with my other sources.

For instance: Why I signed up here in the first place was to post about the 1889 Landowner List for Minsk Province.

If they are from Minsk Province (Vilna is the only other possible one) then there can only be so many Vasilys and Wacławs who owned land.

If I could get a list of those names, then I should be able to compare them against the 1929 Business Directory, the Duma Lists, Officer Lists, etc., and hopefully end up with a match. Then I could take that name and send into the Archive in Minsk for the full details to confirm. Otherwise, there isn't enough information for them to do the search (they could if they wanted too, but they won't).

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Yes, sorry. Dudkowski-G. Lazy typing on my part.

I doubt that they would be in the Red Terror. To be honest, as I said above, I don't much about that family line. I don't know her mother's first name or where she was from. It could fall in the Soviet Union, but like my great-grandmother, it could also be in the Second Polish Republic (see below). In terms of time frame, my great-grandmother was born in 1897 or 1898, as the fourth and last child. Her mother, then, must have been at least in her late 30's or 40's, meaning probably the 1840's or 1850's. I don't know her mother had brothers either. Maybe she was an only daughter?

In terms of location, I wrote the counties in the first post, but I'll clarify further: My great-grandmother specifically said that she could hear the guns in the First World War but that the Germans never reached them. I'm about 99% certain that is accurate. That means her family is from somewhere between the front lines in the First World War (see here) and the Second Polish Republic's eastern frontier (see here). I also figure, based on stories, that it is north of Niasvizh and east of Lida, which really doesn't a leave large area. But still a difficult search nonetheless.

I do not know the surname of the Colonel. It would be my great-grandmother's brother, so theoretically it would be the same as her maiden name. I've gone through the lists trying to find a match with his supposed first name (Michael) and patronymic (Vasilievich), along with date of birth (she was born in 1897, so her brother couldn't much older than late 1870's or 1880's), and someone who was killed in action. Nothing seemed to match perfectly. There were a few that sort of worked but didn't match up when I compared them to the 1929 Directory. It has led to me question whether she exaggerated his rank. But thank you for the link. It is something that I've looked for in the past and may have come across it but didn't save it. May be useful down the line.

I do not know how easy it is to look for cards. If it is easy for you, I can go back and compile a list of possible names. I don't want to burden you though.