Hi Gene, Have you tried the Ellis Island web site? It's free, although they want you to register. You can do name searches of the passenger lists. Sometimes one has to try several surname spellings, and try again and again; but the right people may come up right away. For most of the ships the original passenger list can be viewed; these often give information on the names of other family members and the addresses they are coming from and going to. Lois -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Breindel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CTMID] Hello Hello list, My name is Gene Breindel and have recently joined this list. My wife is Italian, (Ranno, Labella, DiBattista, Lucenti). She was born in Meriden and lived half of her childhood there and the other half in Middletown. Her parents were born in Middletown and New Britain in the 1920's but all her grandparents were born in Italy. At least as far as I know. I have no birth certificates or naturalization papers. Her paternal grandparents both came from Melilli, Sicily. I am told that it was a tiny mountain village. They came to Middletown in the time between 1906 and 1920. I recently went to the Genealogy library in Middletown and looked in the census and in the town directories to try and isolate when they arrived. I got a lot of useful information but still do not know exactly when they arrived. Anyway, I am glad to have joined. Gene Breindel [email protected] Interested in Families: Breindel, Walker, Weidenboerner,Stauffer, Cobble, Grammer, Loichinger, Seel, Bopp, Eder, Meisel http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/e/Eugene-F-Breindel/ Someday YOU'LL be an ancestor too! ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== Visit the Godfrey Memorial Library Website http://www.godfrey.org Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237