Thanks for that info, Mary Anne. Clare Whitney ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Anne Smith To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:59 PM Subject: RE: [IRISH-NYC] Emigrant Savings Bank Hi Clare: Re: Emigrant Savings Bank Not all entries have all that information. I was fortunate enough to find my great-grandfather. It said that he arrived in 1864 and there was more information on him. It gave his age, ship that he sailed on, and place of birth which was Tipperary but didn't say county or town of. It gave no information on who came with him or his parents' names or the name of a spouse. His brother Joseph, who came in the 1870s - I could not find anything on - and I looked through 3+ rolls of microfilm. Some of the record books were lost, so info only goes up to accounts in the 60000s if I remember. That would mean people after say the early 1870s or so would not have a record. They are worth looking at - some libraries have them available on mircofilm (no index) and ancestry.com does have them indexed. But you have to have the immigration package to see them. Ancestry paid a fee to get them (the Immigrant Savings Bank still exists) and they are still the property of the bank. That is why they aren't on-line anymore for free. Mary Anne "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." --Mark Twain