Andrew Cohen wrote: > I know my ancestors came over 1867-1868. A mother and three children > travelling together. I have searched from 1865-70 on CastleGarden, > Ancestry, NARA, etc. Their surname is Cohen, but I have searched > under the Cohen variants (Kahn, Cohn, Kaplan, and many others) to no > avail. I have searched on first names also. There were three > children, Abraham, Lena and William. I have searched on their first > names, possible hebrewe names and variants thereof, leaving surname > field blank. I have been to the JewishGen site which was no help at > all. US naturalization records that early yield no information > other than "country". They were Russians who came from Poland, but > may have travelled through Germany or the U.K. Start at http://www.stevemorse.org/ and scroll down to Castle Garden passengers and enter given starts with A and surname start with C a for years 1860 - 1870. You will go to the Castle Garden web site where you will have to change the years back to 1860-1870 but gives you a much more flexible search. I search on given A*m, surname C*n: I get 24 results including Abraham Cahn, butcher, lots of Abraham Cohens. Searching on A*m K*n I get 63 records including lots Abraham Kahns, Kohns and Kohans Search on the other given names. Lena is ok; William is not a Jewish name. Use the Jewish equivalent and enter th consonants. > Are there missing passenger records in this time frame. NARA records > seem to be especially light in these years? Some are missing but I do not think large groups of names unless the manifest has been lost. another list to ask on possible with better or more specific answers would be TheShipsList. bob gillis bob gillis <robertgillis@verizon.net>