This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEX.2ACIB/697.1 Message Board Post: William, The passenger records will only be found at this end. The British government was not concerned about those leaving the British Isles, they were happy to be rid of them. All of the passenger lists of the ships arriving in America are available from the NARA in Washington, as well as your local LDS Family History Center. You will need the port of arrival and an approximate date. Go to http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp.Enter Boston in the Place Search and select the items for immigration. Find your local LDS Family History Center and rent the microfilm.

Don't know if this is any connection to the NY Forbes inquiries but my gg-grandfather was Charles Forbes Jr. born abt 1805 in Galen, Wayne Co., NY. Isuspect his family was there working on the Erie Canal. His father was also Charles but where he was born I do not know nor who his family was. Charles Sr's. wife was Hannah. His children were Lorenzo b. Galen in 1829, M. Lidia A. Stacey, abt 1857, buried in the Town Cemetery, Chesterton, IN 11 Aug 1896. He was a civil ar veteran. Alexander Forbes b. 1832 Charles Forbes (III?) b. 1836 William Forbes b. 1839 Mary Forbes b. 1841 Some Wayne county papers indicate Alexander moved back to Glasgow. Any information about Charles Seniors family and birthplace would be gratefully received. Harry G. Newman Piper wearing the Forbes tartanwith a 5 year old granddaughter dancing in the Forbes tartan Harry G. Newman