Congratulations, John! What fun to confirm the "Love Boat" story. I too found someone on the Ellis Island website. My great-grandfather is listed as arriving from Germany in 1922. That was a surprise because he had immigrated 40 years earlier! There's an important lesson here: Information in the Ellis Island database comes from the New York ship passenger arrival records, not from the Ellis Island immigrant processing records. Names in the database are not limited to immigrants. After 40 years in America, my great-grandfather went back to Europe on a tour in 1922. He appears on the passenger lists - and the Ellis Island database - on his return home from his "vacation." One of my favorite research sayings is "you don't know what you'll find until you look." So to anyone out there who thinks you don't need to look at the Ellis Island website because you don't have anyone who immigrated through Ellis Island -- well, if you don't look, you'll never know what you didn't find. :-) Barbara Leak Loomis P.S. to John: It's a small world. My great-grandfather's brother immigrated on the SS ZEELAND. ----- Original Message ----- From: John J. Bohnert <bohnertjj@webtv.net> > The Steamship Historical Society of America has an extensive collection > of steamship photos for sale. [ I bought my German grandfather`s ship`s > photo ( SS Zeeland ) from them already.] > > Their website is: www.ubalt.edu/archives/ship/ship.htm