Wondering if anyone can help me with my "brick wall". My gggrandfather, Casper Ott, came to the Oswego, N.Y., by way of Canada from Germany in 1847...Any help would be appreciated. Jackie Ott Correa

At 09:05 AM 02/05/2002 -0700, Jackie Correa wrote: >Wondering if anyone can help me with my "brick wall". My gggrandfather, >Casper Ott, came to the Oswego, N.Y., by way of Canada from Germany in >1847...Any help would be appreciated. >Jackie Ott Correa Jackie, The ships that arrived at Quebec in 1847 are listed here http://www.theshipslist.com/1847/BPP-1847.html There were only a few ships from German ports. There are no passenger lists but also on these 1847 pages are the lists of the dead (in case a family member died on the voyage or in quarantine you might want to check this). To do this use the search engine on the page http://www.theshipslist.com as the deaths were extracted from newspaper accounts and are not in alphabetical order, but rather as they appeared in the press. Regards.. Marjorie Kohli Waterloo, ON Canada http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/