In reply to Josph Kaemerer's comments on New Orleans immigration, I wrote to the list: >I have followed this list for several years and do not remember anyone >saying that people did not immigrate from Germany via New Orleans. In >fact several had traced their families through NO. > I guess I did not make myself clear as Zwonk@aol.com replied to me off-list: > I am descended in part by Germans from the Ostfriesland area of Germany and > they primarily came in via New Orleans up to St. Louis until after the Civil > War when the railroads from NY to IL & IA were available and efficient. So > you can accept that 10's of thousands of people came in via New Orleans.> as did Hud2411@aol.com also off-list: > A lot of Germans entered through New Orleans. The largest group were > probably the Saxon Germans who settled in south St. Louis and the counties > along the Mississippi river--Perry County, etc. This group became the > foundation for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. This movement began in > the late 1830's. My wife's family was among the second group that arrived. > bob gillis