Dear List,
I recently discovered:
http://www.stevemorse.org/ellis/cg.html
Neat thing about this tool is that once you find the suspected ship arrival for your ancestor....
Try using this tool to search year (ex. 1860-1860) + ship name only.
And browse the shplist of your ancestor and possibly find lateral connections.......or perhaps a relative whose name was massacred .....though pay attention to dates..ship may have traveled back and forth more than one time in a single year.
Barbie
Dear Listies,
Once you locate that possible ship...
You can also try searching year + ship + First letter of last name...A, B, or C. or go through entire alphabet...as the site can only show limited number of results per search...
Finding lateral connections might be useful in that if your ancestors place of origin is not listed..perhaps there is lateral relative or even a neighbor who traveled that ship that settled in the same neighborhood as your ancestor..Perhaps they knew each other in Germany. Perhaps they may have come for same or nearby town.
There were many who immigrated in groups.
I think good possibility that my immigrant ancestor knew at least one person on the ship he arrived on that was from his home area.
Barbie-Lew
Dear List,
I recently discovered:
http://www.stevemorse.org/ellis/cg.html
Neat thing about this tool is that once you find the suspected ship arrival for your ancestor....
Try using this tool to search year (ex. 1860-1860) + ship name only.
And browse the shiplist of your ancestor and possibly find lateral connections.......or perhaps a relative whose name was massacred .....though pay attention to dates..ship may have traveled back and forth more than one time in a single year.
Barbie