Genealogy Is . . .
Herman Jahnke, and his son Adolf came to the US in 1892, late in the year, probably from Hamburg to New York. They came to work as carpenters on the World Fair in Chicago. Ida, mother, was travelling with Martha 10, Max 7, Hugo 5 and Arthur 1, when they arrived from Hamburg on 23 May 1894. However, there are no records of their arrival as their ship was lost in the May 19th storm in the Atlantic, where 15 other ships were sunk. They arrived in New York, according to Max's naturalization form in 1941.