This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MEHRTENS, MERTENS, JACOB,S Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hh.2ADE/235 Message Board Post: I have located a "Fridrich Merten," age 40, arriving at New Orleans from Bremen on the Ship Boston, family number 112281. This is the same ship I believe his wife, Adelheid Jacobs, may have been on. She arrived on the same ship, same day (about Jan 24, 1837). Her family number was 112285, and both records are found in Natl Archives Series #M259-14. Does anyone have any further information? Thanks!