Ancestry has a freebie for the immigration collection until the end of the month. You might want to have a look and see if you can find them on a ships manifest. If they came in through the Great Lakes, it will be difficult to find them. Most of those records are missing in action. Blessings! Susan On 11/19/06, Carey Bankhead <carey_bankhead@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Re German immigrants to Lewis Co., my great-grandmother Mary Elizabeth > Lillard's maiden name was Kaiser, and her mother's Welsch. I was always > told that these families came directly from Germany and that one young girl, > possibly my gr.grandmother, was intrusted with funds to buy land before > the family came on. Any ideas? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOLEWIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >