Hello Cousins! I was just in the Ellis Island web site and I found 26 "ALWINE'S listed in the "The American Immigrant Wall of Honor" Yes, Hans Jacob Alwine is listed in the 26. Nancy Allwein Nebiker nnebiker@bellatlantic.net

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 nnebiker@impop.bellatlantic.net wrote: > Hello Cousins! > > I was just in the Ellis Island web site and I found 26 "ALWINE'S listed > in the "The American Immigrant Wall of Honor" Yes, Hans Jacob Alwine > is listed in the 26. > > Nancy Allwein Nebiker > nnebiker@bellatlantic.net > > > ==== ALWINE Mailing List ==== > For more ALWINE info, check out the web site: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genmom > Click on the ALWINE surname. > Hi Nancy, There are a couple of things about the Ellis Island website. First the other 25 uses of "Alwine" appear to me not to be "family" names but are in fact "first" names. Hans Jacob Alwine appears to be the only one listed where it is the family name. Second, you apparently have to pay them money to get someone's name listed -- and this means that someone (one of us perhaps) had Hans Jacob's name inscribed. In any case, I don't think this is any kind of independent confirmation of anything. I noticed that Hans Jacob Alwine's origins were given in the Web of Honor as Schwarzenau, Germany. Does anyone have access to information that would verify that? Thanks very much. Duane