Re. German immigrants An excellent book is "They came in Ships"(Revised Edition) by John Philip Colletta.  It's a small book but loaded with information and reference/ research tools.  Colletta lectures at the National Archives and Smithsonian and on the Genealogy lecture circuit around the country and really knows his subject.  There were many ports of embarcation and debarcation.  Also, if you search for this book on Amazon, you will get a list of other references. This will help you with how your ancestor may have gotten to the "New World" (One of the ports of entry). After that, the path to Piqua may not been direct, as people moved West as means/opportunity permitted and where word of mouth gave them hope of getting land or plying their trade.  A primary means of travel West into Ohio, at that time, would have been on the “National Highway” (the first paved [“Macadamized”] highway in the US) which went from Cumberland, MD to Springfield, IL.  It was finished as far as Western Ohio in the early 1830’s. Clark Gertner -----Original Message----- From: ohmiami-request@rootsweb.com To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 3:01 am Subject: OHMIAMI Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63 Today's Topics: 1. German immigrants (j paymal) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 ate: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:31:59 -0700 rom: "j paymal" <langsonly@msn.com> ubject: [OHMIAMI] German immigrants o: "OHMIAMI-L" <OHMIAMI-L@rootsweb.com> essage-ID: <BAY114-DAV2311552AE68DA5777F568A61E0@phx.gbl> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am sure someone can recommend a book that I might read to explain the path a ew immigrant would travel from New York to Piqua, Ohio in 1853. Would this new mmigrant need to have a sponsor if his passage was paid for by his native ountry? Recommendations appreciated--and thanks! Joanne Lang Paymal @ langsonly.com ------------------------------ To contact the OHMIAMI list administrator, send an email to HMIAMI-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the OHMIAMI mailing list, send an email to HMIAMI@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com ith the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of he mail with no additional text. nd of OHMIAMI Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63 ************************************* ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com