Heads up! EllisIslandRecords.com listed the arrival date of the Martha Washington as Sept. 4, 1911. Microfilm reels are categorized by arrival dates. When I was unable to find the ship Martha Washington on the microfilm reel for that date, an Archives worker looked up the Martha Washington in a book of arrivals and found that it arrived Sept. 6, 1911. Sept. 6 was recorded on the next reel of microfilm. This was my first time perusing ship manifests on microfilm. The other thing of note I might pass along is that it took two to four days to log all of the passengers on some of the larger ships. So the Passenger Arrival book says Sept. 3 for a few pages, then Sept. 4, and then Sept. 5, etc. All for the same ship. My recommendation would be that when you are ordering microfilm from the LDS Library for ship manifests, it might be prudent to order three reels rather than one. The one you want, the one before and the one after. I would have been disappointed had I ordered the film, waited a couple of weeks for it to arrive, raced to the library with excitement on the day it arrived, only to find that it wasn't the correct reel. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com