Stuart. They may have had an acquaintence or a family member that they were traveling to. Came up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers by boat instead of overland. may have worked off part of the passage coming up river. Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Bechman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [BW] BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Digest, Vol 7, Issue 86 >I have a couple of emigration records of possible ancestors living (in >their time) in Cincinnati, OH that allegedly came from Baden to New Orleans >before ending up in Cincinnati. But I have been very skeptical that someone >would emigrate to Cincinnati through New Orleans: New York or Philadelphia >would seem far more reasonable, but I have so far not found similar records >of family members coming through those ports. > > Does anyone on this list have reason to accept such a claim? Why would > someone travel from New Orleans to Cincinnati to settle when there were so > many other more convenient towns along the way to homestead? > > -Stuart >> >> I have trying to find out where in Baden, Germany my gGrandfather, >> Valentin Mueller was born. He was born Jan. 1835, he left Germany for la >> Harve, France around 1855 and came to the United States through New >> Orleans, La. He arrived in Jan. 1857. He made his way to St Louis, Mo. >> He settled there, married Henreitta Gihr, they had seven children, he had >> a dairy farm. >> He died in St. Louis in 1906. >> Bill Mueller > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message