A smith is someone who works with iron, as a blacksmith. A Georg Oehler arrrived at Castle Gardens, according to their website, 20 Apr 1852 on the ship Favorite from Bremen. His occupation is listed as "blacksmith" and his age is given as 22. Your Jacob's middle name may be George. >From Ancestry I found the following: Jakob Oehler Year: 1854 Age: 20 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834 Place: North America Source Publication Code: 8057.10 Primary Immigrant: Oehler, Jakob Annotation: Date of application to emigrate and intended destination. In a few cases, date indexed indicates emigrant's undated application was indexed before the date cited. Also provides date and place of birth and film number. Extracted from a comprehensive indexi Source Bibliography: SCHENK, TRUDY and RUTH FROELKE. The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. Volume 7. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1998. 475p. Page: 297 Good luck. Brenda In a message dated 8/24/2008 4:41:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gmiller@ktis.net writes: Maybe I've been at this to long. I went to the http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html & found a Jacob OEHLER of which I was interested in. When I clicked to know the "Manifest Identification Number" my Internet Explorer quit working. I have not been able to find it again. Other numbers that I could read were 00036520 and 36520 I have no idea where I was or what these numbers are. Also it stated his occupation as a Smith. Does anyone know what that occupation would be? Can anyone help me find this information again. Thanks. My Jacob G. OEHLER came from Wuertemberg to the US in 1855. He was born March 1835. I have found no Emigration record or Naturalization record. Thanks for any help. ...Gerry ------------------------------- 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 **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)