Robt Behra wrote: >> >Jean L?on KIRCHHOFF (b. 13 May 1832, Morschwiller-le-Bas; son of Joseph >> KIRCHHOFF and Catherine BADER) >> >and his wife Th?r?se FLORENCE (b. 10 Feb 1831, Gunsbach; dau. of Michel >> FLORENCE and Marguerithe VOINSON) >> >Jean L?on KIRCHHOFF, then living in Bitschwiller-l?s-Thann, had a passport >> to leave France dated 1 May 1854 for himself and his wife, >destination New >> York. They arrived at the port of New York from Le Havre 19 Jun 1854 on the >> ship "Juventa" (Germans to America, v. 7, >p. 303; original passenger >> manifest on FHL film no. 0175497 [NARA M237, roll 141], list no. 717). > The Ship Juventa has been mis-indexed (or the other way around), on Ancestry.com¹s Immigration Collection, as the INVANTA; but it did arrive in NYC from Havre on 19 Jun 1854 - though the 19 is also difficult to decipher. The list is 18 pages long, and on page 17 are passengers 701 and 702 (just two away from the bottom of the page).....and transcribed here as I read it. The * is mine, notes below. 701 Kirchhoff, J Leon*; 32*; M; France; New York; Farmer. 702 Florence, Therèse; 24; F; France; New York; Farmer. 701*: ³J Léon² was tied together as one word, and so has been indexed by ancestry¹s indexer as Jheon Kirchhoff; the age is one number written on top of another number and I can ³see² these options: 32, 22, 23, 33, with possible 34 or 24 as the original number/age. #s 700 to 704 are all listed from France; other three: Jean Pierre Forgeon 34, Jacob Trautmann (?) 34, and Christ Junker (?) 32/33. All other passengers on page are listed from Wärtemberg, Baviére, and Suisse. All passengers on page are going to New York; and all are ³Farmer². Good luck! Cari Thomas