Bobbi wrote: >Hi all, > > I'm trying to determine the English or American version of the German first >name "Balthas", and having no luck on the Internet. My ancestor left Germany >as a child in 1852 as Balthas Goetzer with brothers named Jakob and Josef. >The next record I find of the family lists only 2 sons, Jakob and Paul, both >born in Germany. Would I be stretching things to assume that the Paul in the >1860 census was the Balthas who left Germany in 1852? Unfortunately, there >were no ages listed for the family on the emigration record, so his age in >the census (10) only tells me he was a child when he left Germany. > The full given name is in English Balthazar, a biblical name and Baltasar i German. If there were three boys on the manifest and two on the 1860 Census? born in Germany, then the later Paul is the Balthazar of the manifest. bob gillis