Dear Christine, Gilly, Antony, Mary Lou and Pauline; I am absolutely thrilled ! Thank you VERY much for your help. Oswalds life is coming together like a puzzle within hours - while my friend searched libraries and enzyklopedias for a month. In the meantime the Ellis Island Records were searched and we found that he went to the States in 1892 (with father, mother and brother) when he was 11. Your information was of great help! Thanks a lot! Hanno