At 07:30 PM 02/05/2002 -0400, branches wrote: >Seeking contact with others researching this same route. > >Frederick Wilheim BOLLERT and several family members immigrated to Canada >about 1852. According to a family letter, they sailed from Bremen to >Halifax when their son, Ernest Robert BOLLERT was two years old. He was >born in Schleusingen, Suhl, Thuringia, Germany on 9 Jul 1850 . From Halifax >, they traveled by train to Berlin, Ontario. Their next child was born in >Berlin (Kitchener) in 1854. I have been through the immigration papers from the Archives of Ontario for this period and many of the German families heading into this area are mentioned. The material is not indexed but it is worth the try. You will find an example of one page here http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/i-rg11-3.htm Regards.. Marjorie Kohli Waterloo, ON Canada http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/