Robert, One of the routes to La Havre was actually through Strasbourg. This is a link to an article I wrote many years ago that showed the route my Buehlertal, Baden ancestors took from Baden to the U.S. http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=connection;id=1;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebspace%2Ewebring%2Ecom%2Fpeople%2Fau%2Fum_5370%2Fnixon%2Ehtml Regarding other posts about locating towns of birth.......there was an awesome census taker in the 1860s in St. Louis, he actually put down the town of birth for all immigrants for the census area he covered!  There are little gems out there just waiting to be picked! Jan Ancestors from Buehlertal, Baden:  Reinschmidt, Schmieder, Schmidt, Baumann, Daum, Fritz and many more Message: 5 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:43:23 -0500 (EST) From: RValois368@aol.com Subject: Re: [BW] travel to America To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8bd6f.21b9d03c.402e502b@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Boyval dit Valois My Valois (a French name) appeared in Rastatt in 1768-a  marriage. Louis had been born in Strasbourg in 1738. He was a Hussar in  the Baden military. So he got to Rastatt before 1768--when? He married another  trooper's daughter. Their name? Corde\Corte\Di Corte. How--by what means or route did my ggrandfather, in late 1849  get from Rastatt to Le Havre? Robert A. Valois  ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:57:22 -0800 (PST) From: Ronald and Laura <rlboz@att.net> Subject: Re: [BW] travel to America To: "baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com" <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> Message-ID:     <1392310642.39510.YahooMailNeo@web184302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 It looks like today it is 6 hours and 31 min by car. ?So I would think wagon or coach might be a good guess from Rastatt to Strasbourg then train to Le Havre. ? This is a good write up for someone going from Basel to Strasbourg to Le Havre.. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SWITZERLAND/2000-04/0956068808 Laura >________________________________ > From: "RValois368@aol.com" <RValois368@aol.com> >To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:43 AM >Subject: Re: [BW] travel to America > > >Boyval dit Valois > >My Valois (a French name) appeared in Rastatt in 1768-a? marriage. >Louis had been born in Strasbourg in 1738. He was a Hussar in? the Baden >military. So he got to Rastatt before 1768--when? He married another? >trooper's daughter. Their name? Corde\Corte\Di Corte. > >How--by what means or route did my ggrandfather, in late 1849? get from >Rastatt to Le Havre? > >Robert A. Valois? > > > > > >------------------------------- >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 > > > ------------------------------ To contact the BADEN-WURTTEMBERG list administrator, send an email to BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the BADEN-WURTTEMBERG mailing list, send an email to BADEN-WURTTEMBERG@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ 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 email with no additional text. End of BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Digest, Vol 9, Issue 41 ************************************************