Sally, I've been away from the list for a few weeks and so I'm not sure you've received the answer you wrote for. I tried Castle Garden site via Stephen Morse site at http://stevemorse.org/ellis/cg.html This looks interesting, SINK could be a typo or bad transcription. Did he come alone? LEOPOLD SINK Occupation LABORER Age 21 Sex M Literacy U Ship BATAVIA Arrived 13 Nov 1871 Origin GERMANY Port LIVERPOOL & QUEENSTOWN Last Residence Destination 7328 Plan Unknown Passage Unknown Does the age map out with your Leopold Link? Can you supply more information about him so we can help you better? Paul in Oregon

I would also try to see an original / copy of any document found. Transcription suffered a bit in the Castle Garden data base, at least in the case of my TIMM and PACKLEP ancestors in 1888. - wrong age for my grandfather : he was eleven months old. C.G. transcribed it as four months. it is difficult to read. i've seen it. - wrong destination for an accompanying young woman. The TIMMs were going to Texas, and so did she (I recently found records on her and she was living in the same area as my TIMMs). The next family down on the original pax list was listed as going to Michigan and the transcriber apparently erroneously associated my Auguste PACKLEP with that family (even though a large bracket grouped her with the TIMMs). Verify anything you get off of the magic computer and its connections. Don't assume any of it to be 100 percent accurate. Dick Stewart =-=-===-=-= Sally, I've been away from the list for a few weeks and so I'm not sure you've received the answer you wrote for. I tried Castle Garden site via Stephen Morse site at http://stevemorse.org/ellis/cg.html