Judy, Don't give up. I was trying to find out when my wife's gggm came to NYC since I knew she was there in 1850 with her husband and kids. Never have found the husband's arrival. Too many John Kelly's. I finally found her through two of her children she arrived with. She was listed as Mrs. Kelly. The kids didn't come up but a Mrs. Kelly did and the kids were there listed with her. Ted judy christopher wrote: > Hi Kathleen, Well it's a long story. I found my Grandfather Mueller > from Speyer RheinlandPfalz in Germans to America in the NYC Library. I > found Gr-Grandfather Haverbeck from Hanover Stadt Hanover Preussa in the > Castle Garden web site he arrived on Nov. 9 1878 in the Port of New York. > Then I found the Haverbeck Family listed in the Pilot on familysearch.org. > The Germans kept great records I went to Speyer Germany and to the Archives > there and confirmed my Mueller family bacl tp 1686.. I hope to go to > Hanover to do the same for the Haverbeck family. > One the Irish side came the stonewalls. I found my Grandfather O'brien > through the Limerick Archives (unfortunately now closed) I found > Gr-GrandMother Fox through a search on the internet of the area of the > Kilmallock Union county Limerick. There were pictures of the area and a > name that was familiar. I wrote to the webmaster and he forwarded my e-mail > to the person who put up the pictures. This person turned out to be a 3rd > cousin. I went to Ireland and met this family. It was my family. > About the Christophers (my husband's fathers' family) I found them through > the message boards on Genforum.com. 2 people answered my query re: William > Christopher. There is now a DNA project for this family in progress. We > have located about 25/35 descendents of this William. > The Mitchells are still a stonewall. I know they came from Galway from the > writings on the gravestones in Kingston Ulster County NY. I have a good > history of this side of the family in the states. But where in Galway did > they come from and how did they get to the US?? Sometimes I think they > walked on water. > Borch/Barscz is a work in progress. I have only found them in the US Fed > Census from 1900 through 1930. This family settled in Yonkers, Westchester > County NY. Georg Borch/Barscz arrived in the us in 1888 along with his wife > Barbara and child Anna age 2. That's all I know of this family so far. > It has taken me 11 years with lots of research and footwork to find all that > I have to date and I am still working. > It just takes perserverence and a lot of setbacks to keep going. > Good luck and I hope you fine your heritage. >