Eugene, Thanks for offering to do the lookup. Would you please check for a Henry/Heinrich Schmiedel, immigrating 1873, d.o.b. ~1840. Barbara "Eugene M. Wengert" wrote: > > I have had only 12 sets of requests. I have answered all of them already. > I did indeed find some good stuff for some poeple. > > GERMANS TO AMERICA has about 85 volumes--they are adding more all the time. > Each volume, listing several thousand passengers by arrival date starting > in 1850, has its own index, so it is helpful to have a master index (like I > do) so I can search all the volumes at once electronically. In the early > dates, the authors only listed ships where the majority of the people were > German, so in the 1850s, the volumes are not too thorough. They do get > better. If I cannot find your person, try different spellings--the old > German farmers didn't spell too well I guess, or maybe it is us??? > > Some people have sent me only a name (like George Mueller) and there must > be 50 people with that name. Another sent me a common name and said he was > born in the 1830 to 1840 range, which again is too broad to help find their > person. Another sent me some Russiam names, even though one might think > that the people had to be German--wouldn't you think? And another sent be > a very rare name--spelled the way she spelled it, there was not one of the > nearly one million names I have in the index spelled that way. Be creative > in your spellings; maybe the ship's captain was French and couldn't spell > the German correctly. A good book about all this is THEY CAME IN SHIPS. > > To repeat--send me first name, surname, dob and date of immigration. It > helps if you have names fo others that were traveling together--sometimes a > rare first name, like Xavier, is the clue we need to find them. I can only > look at 1850-1888 arrivals. > > If I find the reference, then go to the original manifest (microfilm) to > probably find out more. I found that my 3gr grandfather came over with his > eventuial bride and her family--maybe there was a budding romance on board? > We'll never know, but it is fun to speculate... > > One of the strangest ones was a rare surname (Dehmer) with a first name of > Joe. However, there were no Joe Dehmer's listed, but there was an August > and a Franz Dehmer from the correct city. When I went to the microfilm, as > the date was in the right time period, I found that the folks at Ellis > Island had crossed off the names of two Joe Dehmers from the same city, on > the same ship, that arrived together and made them change their name (used > their middle names). The "Joe" for both is clearly seen in the record as > that was doen by the ship's captain! When I told this to my wife, she > recollected the story, but she had not recalled it for many years and it > might of been forgotten if..... > > Anyway--send in more requests if you have some. > > Gene > > Gene Wengert > Professor of Wood Processing, Emeritus > Univ of Wisconsin-Madison > & > President > The WoodDoctor's Rx, LLC > 2872 Charleston Drive, Madison, WI 53711-6502 > 608-271-4441 > Preferred e-mail: WoodDoc@Badger.Alumni.Wisc.edu

The index is pretty good in the 1870s, so it might be that there is a different spelling...nothing even close as you have it now. Gene At 10:23 PM 2/22/01 -0600, you wrote: >Eugene, > >Thanks for offering to do the lookup. Would you please check for a >Henry/Heinrich Schmiedel, immigrating 1873, d.o.b. ~1840. > >Barbara > > > >"Eugene M. Wengert" wrote: >> >> I have had only 12 sets of requests. I have answered all of them already. >> I did indeed find some good stuff for some poeple. >> >> GERMANS TO AMERICA has about 85 volumes--they are adding more all the time. >> Each volume, listing several thousand passengers by arrival date starting >> in 1850, has its own index, so it is helpful to have a master index (like I >> do) so I can search all the volumes at once electronically. In the early >> dates, the authors only listed ships where the majority of the people were >> German, so in the 1850s, the volumes are not too thorough. They do get >> better. If I cannot find your person, try different spellings--the old >> German farmers didn't spell too well I guess, or maybe it is us??? >> >> Some people have sent me only a name (like George Mueller) and there must >> be 50 people with that name. Another sent me a common name and said he was >> born in the 1830 to 1840 range, which again is too broad to help find their >> person. Another sent me some Russiam names, even though one might think >> that the people had to be German--wouldn't you think? And another sent be >> a very rare name--spelled the way she spelled it, there was not one of the >> nearly one million names I have in the index spelled that way. Be creative >> in your spellings; maybe the ship's captain was French and couldn't spell >> the German correctly. A good book about all this is THEY CAME IN SHIPS. >> >> To repeat--send me first name, surname, dob and date of immigration. It >> helps if you have names fo others that were traveling together--sometimes a >> rare first name, like Xavier, is the clue we need to find them. I can only >> look at 1850-1888 arrivals. >> >> If I find the reference, then go to the original manifest (microfilm) to >> probably find out more. I found that my 3gr grandfather came over with his >> eventuial bride and her family--maybe there was a budding romance on board? >> We'll never know, but it is fun to speculate... >> >> One of the strangest ones was a rare surname (Dehmer) with a first name of >> Joe. However, there were no Joe Dehmer's listed, but there was an August >> and a Franz Dehmer from the correct city. When I went to the microfilm, as >> the date was in the right time period, I found that the folks at Ellis >> Island had crossed off the names of two Joe Dehmers from the same city, on >> the same ship, that arrived together and made them change their name (used >> their middle names). The "Joe" for both is clearly seen in the record as >> that was doen by the ship's captain! When I told this to my wife, she >> recollected the story, but she had not recalled it for many years and it >> might of been forgotten if..... >> >> Anyway--send in more requests if you have some. >> >> Gene >> >> Gene Wengert >> Professor of Wood Processing, Emeritus >> Univ of Wisconsin-Madison >> & >> President >> The WoodDoctor's Rx, LLC >> 2872 Charleston Drive, Madison, WI 53711-6502 >> 608-271-4441 >> Preferred e-mail: WoodDoc@Badger.Alumni.Wisc.edu > Gene Wengert Professor of Wood Processing, Emeritus Univ of Wisconsin-Madison & President The WoodDoctor's Rx, LLC 2872 Charleston Drive, Madison, WI 53711-6502 608-271-4441 Preferred e-mail: WoodDoc@Badger.Alumni.Wisc.edu