Thank you for all your replies and suggestions. I have checked the LDS website many times without any luck, but will continue to check it. Changing names over the years makes it challenging :) I can only hope that if I ever do find information there, that it will be more accurate than some of the other information I have gotten from that site. I will pursue checking with the church records in the town he lived in. He lived in Webster NY, and did have a sister named Mary...but she lived past 1881. Thank you again for your help and suggestions! [email protected] wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >BAVARIA-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 159 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [BAVARIA] Help please! Bohn in Bad [Bohn <[email protected]>] > #2 RE: [BAVARIA] Help please! Bohn in ["McBride, Billy G." <[email protected]] > #3 RE: [BAVARIA] Help please! Bohn in ["McBride, Billy G." <[email protected]] > #4 Re: [BAVARIA] Help please! Bohn in ["Marguerite Miller" <[email protected]] > #5 Re: [BAVARIA] Help please! Bohn in [[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >Going on Vacation? Longer than 4 days? Go to >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/BAVARIA.html >to unsubscribe > > > >______________________________ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [BAVARIA] Help please! Bohn in Baden or Bavaria > From: > Bohn <[email protected]> > Date: > Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:39:52 -0500 > To: > [email protected] > > > Hi! > I continue to struggle with knowing where to go next in my research of > the John Bohn family. The New York census records all say the family > members came from Baden. John's death certificate just says he was > born in Germany in 1825. > He immigrated from Bremen to America in 1849. The original immigration > lists from Bremen were destroyed in World War II, so the available > immigration lists were created as arrivals in New York, rather than > departures from Bremen. Most people immigrating from Bremen were > listed as coming from Mittelrüsselbach Germany, whether they did or not. > John's declaration of intent to become an American citizen lists his > place of origin as Bavaria. > Because of the different information from the various sources, I don't > know if John came from Baden or Bavaria, and even if that were known > for sure, I still don't know which town in either of those areas he > came from. > I know I can't write for more information anywhere in Germany until I > have a town location. Any ideas where I can go from here to get that > information or where I should go from here?? Any help would be most > appreciated. > Cindy > > ______________________________ >