In a message dated May 11, 2008 8:55 PM AllenAmet@aol.com wrote: << I am very new to the List, but have been researching a man named Alois L. > Schutt who once lived in Alsace-Lorraine. I think he was born in > Ober-eschbach, if I have spelled that correctly, around 1846-1850 (he said > Jan 1st). > > He came to the US in June 1859, with his mother (Marie Auguste) and > father, Morand. But the ship register ('Wm Tell') shows their last name > as "Jud'. > Was this a common alternative to Schutt? > > He lived for a while in Newburgh, NY, but then settled in Cleveland, > Ohio > (as a gun/locksmith, where he (Alois) died in 1910. He was married three > times: in 1870, in 1877, and in 1902.....>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Allen, Thanks to the second message you send to me privately with more information than the above message, I have found your family. You are lucky! Here is the family: Morand JUD, cooper (tonnelier), 48 years old in May 1859, born in Ranspach-le-Haut (Haut-Rhin, Alsace), left Ranspach-le-Haut in 1859, with his wife Anne-Marie ARGAST (and no Marie ''Auguste'') 51 years old, and his children: Anne (25 y), Anne-Marie (22), Joseph (17), Joséphine (15) and Aloyse (13). They arrived at New-York in 1859 Source: ''Liste nominative des Haut-Rhinois ayant émigré en Amérique (1800-1870)'' All the best from Alsace Ewald