I pasted the below from the RootsWeb Review. They remind us that www.ancestry.com is offering their databases free until Dec. 21st. Betty Pace >From Rootsweb Review Another virtual treasure trove about your ancestors might be awaiting you under IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION. Two of the major databases there are the WUERTTEMBERG (Germany) EMIGRATION INDEX and the GREAT MIGRATION (New England) INDEX. However, there is much more to be found here. Example of a recent search: Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies: Volume I ZURICH TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA, 1734-1744 LIST OF EMIGRANTS TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA, 1734- 1744 Sergeant Heinrich Hitz, from the Bauder-Albis, born July 11, 1697, with his wife, Elsbetha Frick, of Knonau, born April 18, 1711, and four children: Verena, born March 16, 1727, Adelheid, born February 10, 1732, Heinrich, born September 13, 1733, and Anna, born May 11, 1738; to Pennsylvania. IMMIGRANTS INTO PENNSYLVANIA: Volume 1 Name: Joh. Conrad Fromm. Ship: SHIP LYDIA. Captain: JAMES ALLEN. LIST OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED IN THE SHIP LYDIA. Place: LONDON Date: DEC. 11, 1739 [The original list is herewith given.] Men's names and ages. Hans Jacob Houser, 23, Rodick Frick, 30, Johannes Frick, 19, Andreas Crook, 45, Hans Jacob Frie, 30, Ulrick Spinder, 23, Hendrick Seeds, 28, Hendrick Seeds, junr., 28, Hans Jacob Croop, 30, Johannes Laypert, 21. Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies: Volume 2 ZURICH TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA, 1734-1744 LISTS OF EMIGRANTS FROM VARIOUS DISTRICTS FAMILY NAMES, BERN [p.59] Pfister, a master butcher in the city of Reading, she wishes to take her inheritance in this country over to America. Anna Barbara is a daughter of Conrad Kunzli, who died in America in 1769, by his first wife who bore him 2 children. He had three children by a second wife who died in 1750 on the way to Pennsylvania. In 1753 Kunzli came back home for a short time and told about his circumstances. Since it is not known where the other children are, or whether they are still living, the government only allows one-fifth of the property of 937 gulden to be withdrawn. The emigration tax of 10 percent is deducted. Among the documents there is a statement made out by Pastor A. Helffenstein on December 10, 1773, in Germantown, saying that the Schmidt-Kunzli couple are members of the Reformed Church; there is also the original of the warrant of authority of Dec. 9, 1773, for Joh. Jak. Pfister. A form printed in the German language was used for this warrant. Peter Miller, Esquire, royal judge of the city and county of Philadelphia, acted as notary, and Benjamin Miller and Abraham Schoemaker as witnesses. IMMIGRANTS INTO PENNSYLVANIA: Volume 1 Name: Michael Frick, sick. Ship: DUKE OF WIRTENBERG Captain: DANIEL MONTPELIER Place: ROTTERDAM Date: OCT. 20, 1752 Name: Henry Gimper, Ship: EDINBURG Place: ROTTERDAM Date: OCT. 2, 1753 RootsWeb Guides, TRACING IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson15.htm and NATURALIZATION RECORDS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson16.htm can help you learn more about available records and find links to more sources. This would be a good time to do a search in the AIS CENSUS INDEXES. This collection of some 35 million people contains federal and state census indexes, indexes to various U.S. non-population schedules (Mortality Schedules for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880), Veterans Schedules, and Slave Schedules) and information from various tax lists. This is a great database to help find where your ancestors resided in the United States at particular times. Remember to try all the variant spellings of your surnames -- the census enumerator or the tax man might have spelled the name differently than you do. Need some ideas for overcoming name spelling problems? See WHY YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR ANCESTORS at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson8.htm For questions about census records and links to more information, see CENSUS RECORDS: SOUNDEXES, INDEXES AND FINDING AIDS at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson9.htm Also see RootsWeb Guide, TAXING TALES at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson11.htm If you explore the buried treasures under BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY at http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/biohist/main.htm you might be fortunate enough to turn up some golden nuggets of family data under BIOGRAPHY & GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX or the SLAVE NARRATIVES. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.