Try the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild at Rootsweb.com They are transcribing all the ship manifests they can get their hands on, and it's searchable. Grinch3457@aol.com wrote:Can someone please tell me how to go about finding out about an ancestor that came over from Germany? I haven't had to do this before and don't know where to start. All I know is he came over from Germany (where I don't know) in 1884, according to census records. I also don't know where he came in at. Any starting point would be a great help. Thanks! Pam ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== Submit your information to the Jefferson Co., KY History and Genelaogy project. See http://home.ix.netcom.com/~gsdownr/usgw/jefferson1.html for information on how to submit. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now