Carol Harbushka wrote: > > Hello to all, > I am making a long-awaited trip to Chicago on March 22 to do research > Hi Carol, You might want to call ahead and reserve a reader for the days that you plan to be at the branch of the National Archives in Chicago. I went there a few years ago with the hopes of searching the passenger ship's lists only to be disappointed that they are kept mostly in the branches on the east coast. Chicago stores mostly Great Lakes Regional materials and it is nice to search the census records for the US. Good Luck.