Hi Sonny, Fred & list members, Some additional information. If an emigrant arrived in North America via Canada (e.g. Quebec) you will NOT find Canadian passenger arrival records before 1865 since Canada did NOT begin to record ship arrivals until that year. Very few immigrants generated a paper record before that date. Bette > Sonny, > > In 1848 there were many ports of departure from that region of > Europe: Calais, Harve, Antwerp, and etc. There were also many ports > of entry into the US where one might end up in Ohio, such as Boston, > Baltimore, New York, even New Orleans, and Montreal. > > BTW, the departure ports did not keep records, but the arrival ports > did. If you can find the arrival ship, the ship's manifest will give > the port of departure. Be forewarned, in that time period there is > usually no useful information on the manifest, such as last residence > or village of birth, as records much later had. >> >>On the 1900 census my GG grandfather Jacob Pees said he immigrated >>in 1848 from Baumholder . If he left from there what port would have >>sailed from ? He ended up in Port Washington Ohio . >> >>Sonny