My Danish grandparents came to U.S. by way of Canada. Ancestry.com/ now has passenger lists of ships coming into Canada, and even stopping at Niagara Falls, NY. You might check that out. Evelyn SEITZ, SALZER On Aug 15, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Clayton Buerkle wrote: > I retrieved my great grandfather's Declaration of Intent and it > cleared up > one mystery. I knew he arrived in the U.S. 1893 but that's all. He > couldn't > be found in any immigration records at Ellis Island or the other > ports. His > Declaration said that he arrived in December of 1893, and that was an > interesting find. I would have thought he would aim to come in the > spring or > summer so as not to have to deal with the winter. But also, he said > that he > arrived at the port of Chicago. That got me excited for a while but > after > much research I concluded that must just not be right. I couldn't > find any > immigration port in Chicago, at least at that time. And the story > from my > grandfather was that he did come through Ellis Island. He must have > put > Chicago for some other reason, maybe he didn't know the name of > Ellis Island > where he had landed. Chicago's world fair was in 1893 and so the > city was at > it's best. What a sight it must have been for him. > > Clayton > > ----- Original Message ----- > Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:18:45 -0500 >> From: "TONIA NIELSEN" <toniraye@dishmail.net> >> Subject: Re: [BW] Immigration Records >> To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: >> <c8b6fc6f0808150818y285dd748ld0bcccaa5ea90b84@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Jane, if you can find his Declaration of Intent or naturalization >> record, >> it >> might tell you what port he used and when he arrived. >> >> my great great grandfather's declaration of intent listed his birth >> village, >> his birth date, port he left from and when, when he arrived in US. >> Luckily >> he applied for naturalization in the Indiana town where he died, >> so it >> wasn't to hard to find. >> >> Tonia >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BADEN- > WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message