What is your source for the village and county: "Polisound, Javlov"? There seem to be spelling problems with both of those. Javlov isn't one of today's counties in Denmark and the name doesn't sound very Danish. There is the southern geographic region that was contested between Germany & Denmark, but I think we need to look for different spellings and knowing the source would help in determining what sort of errors might have been made. A Bennett wrote: > "Robert Heiling" <robheil@comcast.net> wrote in message > news:4294EF17.14A81987@comcast.net... > >A Bennett wrote: > > > >> Hi I am trying to find information on Christian Johnson who was born on > >> April 26, 1857 in Polisound, Javlov, Denmark. He emigrated to the United > >> States sometime around between 1879 - 1883. If you have any info on him, > >> his > >> parentage and ancestors please contact me. > > > > Since you're unsure of his date of emigration, you might want to look for > > him in > > The Danish Emigration Archives at: > > http://www.emiarch.dk/info.php3?l=en > > > Thanks Bob I found out he arrived in 1877. He was working as a ship > carpenter and sailor before arriving in the united states. I'd be interested in knowing what name you found him under there in that database as I had previously looked without success, but I figured that you knew some spelling variations. What is your source for the village and county: "Polisound, Javlov"? There seem to be spelling problems with both of those. Javlov isn't one of today's counties in Denmark and the name doesn't sound very Danish. There is the southern geographic region that was contested between Germany & Denmark in the past, but I think we need to look for different spellings and knowing the source would help in determining what sort of errors might have been made. Here's also hoping that our Danish research friends jump in here to help. :-) Bob