Sandy – A number of people have been good enough to send me the full record of the Christina Heitzman I found in the “free” Ancestry.com offer. Unfortunately, although the same age as my gg-grandmother, she was not my ancestor. It’s too bad because there seems to be a wealth of information about her and her family. Well, I guess that’s not actually the situation in my case. I have a great deal of info about my great-great ancestors – I just don’t know exactly when or how they got here to the States. As far as I know, Christina and Mathias were married when they came to this country. They arrived about 1835 because their first child, my g-grandfather, was born in 1836 in Baltimore. Since they lived in Baltimore and, as far as I know, had no relatives living in this country prior to their arrival, I’m assuming that Baltimore was their most likely port of entry but, of course, they may have arrived via another port. As for Matthias, my gg-grandfather, he was born in 1810 and came here from Wurttemburg, Germany. I even have a copy of the letter the burghermeisters gave him attesting to his good character. The spelling of the last name varies among the various records thusly: HEITZMAN, HEITZMANN, HEIZMAN, HEIZMANN. There are other variations and misspellings, such as an S instead of a Z, too. Also, MATTHIAS is often spelled as MATHIAS, or, in one church record, as MARTIN and, then, later as MATTHEW. So, Lord knows how their names were spelled on the ship’s passenger list. Anyway, I want to thank you for your quick response. I thought the “hit” on Christina was finally the one I was looking for. Looks like I’ll have to keep looking, but you’ve given me renewed hope. Again, thanks. Bill Richards