Dear Listers, The Bavarian List sent me. Not because I was misbehaving, but perhaps because I got off to a Pfalz start. There are two lines I am trying to follow. They ended up in Louisville, KY, in the middle of the last century. One of them said he was from Bavaria, but he could have been in error. He was Adam Sebastian, a Catholic gentleman, b. about 1830. There was a brother, Andreas Sebastian, I believe, who showed up for the first time on the 1860 census. I have no idea where the Sebastian boys hailed from. Then there was Adam's wife, Hedwig Scheidt. Her parents were Jacob and Elizabeth. They were born about 1820. Hedwig came to America in 1865. One of these, Sebastian or Scheidt claimed to be French from Alsace and Lorraine. Don't know which. Everybody swam. There were no ship or Boeing 747 records on them at all. Any insights at all would be helpful. The 1937 Louisville flood of the Ohio River wiped out all immigration records. Tom the bewildered