I think that I have a unique problem in tracing my gg grandfather's part of the tree. His name was Peter Mueller/Miller. The information that I have pieced together from the Family Bible,census,and marriage records seems to be that he came to the U.S. with his parents before 1850 and they were in St.Louis. In 1865 he married in Perry Co. Mo. I found him on the 1870 census. It says he was from Prussia. By 1880 his American wife had died. He left his two young children with friends in two different Mo. counties and returned to Germany. I found each of them on the census. My g grandmother always told me that she had expected him to come back and get her, but he never returned. Suprisingly, I find that just before she had married my g grandfather(in 1890) she lived in a house in Madison Co. Mo. full of people named Miller? This information was from a letter she had written to her fiance. Does anyone on the list have any idea how you find records of people that returned to their homeland in Germany? Are there ship lists for that type of thing? I have no idea of an exact date to search. Just a within + or - 10 years sort of thing. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Karen Moore Kerr __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

I don't know if this will be of any help to you or not, but at http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/emig/pass1.html you will find a long list. The top part of the list is for the name. This microfilm will tell you a date and I guess, a page number. Then, look for that date at the bottom of this link for another roll of microfilm. This is a copy of the passport application. If nothing else, perhaps it will narrow down your time frame. I looked, hoping it was from Germany to America, but it seems to be the other way. Perhaps someone else knows more about this, and can add something to this. Carol from St. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen K" <kerrweinc2002@yahoo.com> To: <GERMANS-STLOUIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:44 PM Subject: [Germans-STL] German Emmigrants > I think that I have a unique problem in tracing my gg > grandfather's part of the tree. His name was Peter > Mueller/Miller. The information that I have pieced > together from the Family Bible,census,and marriage > records seems to be that he came to the U.S. with his > parents before 1850 and they were in St.Louis. In 1865 > he married in Perry Co. Mo. I found him on the 1870 > census. It says he was from Prussia. By 1880 his > American wife had died. He left his two young children > with friends in two different Mo. counties and > returned to Germany. I found each of them on the > census. My g grandmother always told me that she had > expected him to come back and get her, but he never > returned. Suprisingly, I find that just before she had > married my g grandfather(in 1890) she lived in a house > in Madison Co. Mo. full of people named Miller? This > information was from a letter she had written to her > fiance. Does anyone on the list have any idea how you > find records of people that returned to their homeland > in Germany? Are there ship lists for that type of > thing? I have no idea of an exact date to search. Just > a within + or - 10 years sort of thing. > Thanks for any help or suggestions. Karen Moore Kerr > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > > > ==== GERMANS-STLOUIS Mailing List ==== > GERMAN-TRADITIONS-L is a mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in German traditions. Anything that concerns traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in Germany or former German areas is an appropriate topic. To subscribe click on mailto:GERMAN-TRADITIONS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe (Mail Mode) or mailto:GERMAN-TRADITIONS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe (Digest Mode) > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >