This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACI/4756.1 Message Board Post: George, >From passenger lists, he appears to match a Batzer that arrived on the Louisa in August 1845 with his mother Barbara and several siblings. Do you have that info? I can send you the image if you need it. You could find other confirmation anywhere, so you need to check everything you can. To go back to Bavaria, you need the town they came from. I quickly found him and some siblings in most censuses from 1850-1880, sometimes spelled wrong. You have his death certificate with date of death. Some suggestions, some maybe not easy to get, but possibly available: -check the cemetery for others buried there -check newspaper death notices and obituaries in Baltimore Sun and Der Deutsche Correspondent, the major German-language newspaper in Baltimore. Both are at the main Pratt Library. -church records. They lived at the corner of East Eager & Aisquith St in 1880. -naturalization records, especially if there is a Declaration of Intent (in most cases, they have been destroyed, but I have found them occasionally) -look for all the same for the siblings John