Bert, First , you are looking at emigration records and not immigration records. The Würtemberg Emigration Index number (550806) is the LDS microfilm number that those data were found. Here is the online LDS Family History Library catalog (FamilySearch website) entry for that microfilm. It is a valid entry in the WEI. ================= Auswanderungsakten, 1526-1899 Nürtingen (Württemberg). Oberamt (Main Author) Emigration from the district of Nürtingen, Württemberg, Germany; includes internal migrations, emigration to European countries, the United States and elsewhere. Includes indexes. See the Württemberg Emigration Index 943.47 W22st v. 2. ================= You can visit your local LDS Family History Center and rent that microfilm. BTW, your family has been thoroughly researched. In addition to the entry in Pedigree Resource files at FamilySearch by Amanda GOODALL, there are 5 entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for your Adam, b: 23 DEC 1726, there is this one who includes the parents and siblings. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=llewellyn-jones&id=I0873 Unfortunately, the records for Aich do not go back much further. Here is the LDS FHL catalog entry for the Aich data. =================== Kirchenbuch, 1679-1966 Evangelische Kirche Aich (OA. Nürtingen) (Main Author) Parish register of baptisms, marriages, deaths, confirmations and family books for Aich ( OA. Nürtingen), Württemberg. =================== At 02:02 AM 2/17/2009, you wrote: >From: "Bert K. Waits" <waitsb@math.ohio-state.edu> >Subject: [BW] Help requested from a newbie - immigration records >To: BADEN-WURTTEMBERG@rootsweb.com >Cc: waitsb@math.ohio-state.edu > >Help requested from a newbie. >My immigrant ancestor Adam Wacht b. 1723 in Aich, Germany appears in the >Ancestry.com immigration records for July 1750. So does his brother John >George for the same date. See below. >But I read that the index covers 1808-1890. Yet my ancestor came to >America ca 1750 (and does show up in Berks Co PA in the mid 1750s - tax >records). >So I am a bit suspicious of the listings below. Can you help me? Are they >valid? Was Pomerania considered an independent country in 1750? Does it >make sense that they would have come to Philadelphia in 1750 from >Pomerania? > >Thanks much, Bert Please contact me by email at bkwaits@gmail.com > >Wuerttemberg, Germany Emigration Index about Adam Wacht >District: Nuer. >Name: Wacht, Adam >Birth Place: Aich >Application Date: Jul 1750 >Destination: Pomerania >Number: 550806 > >Wuerttemberg, Germany Emigration Index about Hans Jerg Wacht >District: Nuer. >Name: Wacht, Hans Jerg >Birth Place: Aich >Application Date: Jul 1750 >Destination: Pomerania >Number: 550806 ____________________________________________________________ Right on time. Click now for great project management software! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/PnY6rx8WgpndwsMM0dMb0kM3RZsabeE7wmMy9idHosNdMUgAob62w/