Les, See http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html re the films and indexing that might be available. The ISTG is uploading lists transcribed by volunteers. And Ancestry (fee based) is also uploading indexed images of passenger lists. Like my family, your family arrived before Ellis Island was used as a processing center. Our families would have been able to walk off the ships onto American soil and go about their business. It's going to take some work and some luck if you do not have family history giving the dates and name of a ship (and one can't always trust oral history). Elaine Hello les On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, you wrote > 1874 Les