"Sharie Paulson" <[email protected]> said" >I assume, since it appears to have come to the US alone, that her parents >had passed away. Did Julia have siblings? Plenty of young women emigrated alone, got jobs as servants and sent money home to their parents. And just because there isn't anyone of the same surname on the passenger list doesn't mean she came alone. She cold be travelling with cousins, neighbors, aunts or uncles. -dja