Hello, I searching for others who had ancestors arrive to America in Sept., 1738 on the ship Queen Elizabeth. My ancestor, Johann Henrich Silvius, arrived aboard this ship. He later settled in what is now the Kunkletown area of Monroe County. Johann Henrich Silvius was probably from the Palatine region of what is now Germany. I do not know the name of the town or village where he and his family lived. I would be interested to know where your ancestor lived before they emmigrated and also where they settled when they came to America. Thank you very much. Your help is greatly appreciated! Elizabeth Hagenbuch [email protected]

At 10:54 AM 11/25/2002 -0500, tochosos wrote: >Hello, > >I searching for others who had ancestors arrive to America in Sept., 1738 >on the ship Queen Elizabeth. >My ancestor, Johann Henrich Silvius, arrived aboard this ship. He later >settled in what is now the Kunkletown area of Monroe County. Johann >Henrich Silvius was probably from the Palatine region of what is now >Germany. I do not know the name of the town or village where he and his >family lived. >I would be interested to know where your ancestor lived before they >emmigrated and also where they settled when they came to America. > I looked at the list via Olive Tree (best site for immigrant lists) and it had a link to the passengers on Queen Elizabeth of 1738: http://www.searchforancestors.com/passengerlists/queenelizabeth1738.html There are at least two other well known West End family names there, Kunkel (hence Kunkeltown) and Laubach. For more info about the Laubach's try their family association: http://laubachpeople.tripod.com/ Or contact Dale Berger, who is a well known researcher on many of those west end families. (I will send the email off line) If you are interested in matching the American family with the German ancestry, a resource just for that purpose is Annette Kunselman Burgert's 18th Century Emmigrants books. (2 volumes) She went through Strassburger and Hinke's transcriptions of passenger lists and looked for both the US church records in PA and the German one in the Palatinate. It won't give you full genealogies for the most part because it wasn't really designed for that. It will give you a match of the locations though and then you can consult the full records from there. HTH Geoff Crawford [email protected]