Thank you Melanie for writing in English.� It is easier for me.�
���� I don't know what ship they came on and very little else. I will check other sources for passengers of the ship you mention.� The date for your Strutz family seems right, but I don't know of additonal children who died on the way here.
� �� My main source of information is a scrapbook with family pictures from my mother-in-law.� She no doubt got her information about their coming from Mecklenburg from a family member.� I got the date of immigration from a 1900 Census record of one of the Strutz children.� So I don't know how accurate any of it is.�
��� I have checked U.S. Census records, but have not yet found time to explore the German records.� Of course, I have used FamilySearch.org to see if I can trace the family back before they came to U.S.� No luck there.� And I've checked the Ships list on M-L� and passenger lists for Castle Garden and on Ancestry.�
���� My information is that Johann or John Strutz Sr. and his wife Rica came from Germany to Rochester, NY.� I believe that they both died there but I don't know an exact date and I haven't found an obituary or cemetery record for either one.� One son named John C. Strutz and his wife Marie Werner or Warner went West to Northern Indiana.
��� Thank you for your note.�
Cordially,
Martha Rasmussen���������� <mart515 at yahoo.com>