Dear List, The one lister gave excellent advice, when they told the inquirer to check to see, if there were other friends or relatives on board ship with this young man and his brother. Usually people from a community or family come together, so he probably had a good support system with him to help with the little one. However, stories from our families make it more romantic to think that he braved the trip himself with his little brother. My husband's maternal grandfather supposedly came with friends or relatives, when he was a young child. Later, we discovered that he came with his parents and other siblings. His oldest brother's descendant gave us this information. After their arrival another daughter was born, but the parents died within a month of each other in 1893. There were several siblings of the Father already here plus the oldest brother had married shortly after their arrival here, so his younger siblings had people to care for them. When my mother-in-law came along in 1911, she never heard about her grandparents. She did not know that her Aunt Eva was her Dad's sister just that she came to visit and brought little gifts. When we discovered that the family was from Omersbach in Unterfranken from the information given on the marriage of one of the sisters, we found a relative, who told us that his grandfather remembered taking the Family to Bremen to catch the boat to America. They told us that! their mode of travel was in a cattle wagon. Thanks for sharing your storeis and queries with me. Karla Nurnberg --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour