Hello Conrad, yes, I have the book you have shown the link to and I have read it cover to cover in the hope of finding any reference to a ship or passenger names but to no avail. Of course there is such a wide range of immigration years from 1702 to 1776 and beyound, then the years of the immigrants having spent in England and Ireland. Even if you knew the exact year of immigration, there are no ship records of those who immigrated to the Carolinas. I remember seeing ship names and passenger names in the records kept by Strassburger on immigrants to Pennsylvania, however, without any ages given in these early lists, it's difficult to prove any relationship to later generations. Even if you knew how, when and from where your ancestors began their voyage, you would still need to know the exact name of the town from which they came in Germany or Switzerland as church records are kept at the local level. Ursula ____________________________________________________ There will come a time, when you'll have no more time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tricia & Conrad" <triconholsomback@greenwood.net> To: germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:49:28 PM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Surname's Holsomback, Holsonback, Holsonbake. Thank you Ursula for your response. I have personal knowledge that my Holson(m)back family is German. I have all of the available information on our family here in America, well almost all. I have the benefit of having more than 200 researchers of our surname over the last 11 years. We do have a research site at MyFamily.com. We have many documents that tell us that our family has been in America since 1763 in NC along with many other documents of our families service to the United States before and after the American Revolution. Our Holsombacks, at last count 90 variations of the spelling of the surname, have fought in every war our country has ever had, as well as service to King Charles of England in the Indian wars. Yes our family did, sadly, have slaves and had large holdings of land in NC and SC, many acres given to them by the royalty owners of land in the Carolina Colony (later divided into NC and SC). Our family ancestors were given land by the King of England and by the governors of NC and SC. So now to our problem, we are almost 99 percent sure that our Holsomback's were German Palatines, see here: http://books.google.com/books?id=onU4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA59&ots=nQ96WFnzBp&dq=palatines+to+carolina+colony&output=text but we have not been able to find which ship they came in on or if they left from London of other ports of embarkation. Then we can find out where they came from in Europe. They may have been Swiss Germans but almost surely Germans. Thanks for your help. Conrad Holsomback triconholsomback@greenwood.net Normal 0