baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com writes: >I don't know how to find out when he immigrated. Can you advise? Thanks I am not an expert, but in NYS the census often indicates how many years the person has been in the US. Have you found your Charles Nutter in other census records? The more times he is listed, the more variations on name spelling and information you find (at least that's been my experience with my simple 5-letter surname!) That's where I started tracking. Also, cemetery records helped a little. And noting if there were children and where they were born. By finding that two sons were born in Germany and then one in NY, plus 2 daughters, I was able to narrow date of arrival to 1849 - 1854. That helped a lot, and then there were a few other things that helped narrow it down to 1854. I believe it was the son who was born in 1849 in "Germany" whose own census record as a married adult indicated how many years he had been in the US. I was surprised to find there were one or two of those young German sons in the Civil War, meaning they must have joined at a very early age - 13 - 16 years old! What amazes me about these people is also how they left such difficult circumstances such as the famine and revolution of around 1849 and ended up fighting in a war of a country that really wasn't their own. Kathleen