Re - Surname Shacher - I had some time to do a little digging, and I found my Grandfather, Morris Shacher entering the U.S. sometime in 1897 on the ship Normannia departing Hamburg August 16, 1897, but in looking at the passenger lists for the Normannia entering New York and passengers going through Ellis Island, on any date in 1897 after that, he is not listed, but the ship's manifest lists him......very frustrating. At least I found him on a ship. And I learned he was a Kaufmann, or merchant. I also found my grandmother Sadie Weiss as a servant in NYC, and learned that her eldest daughter, Lillie, was born in Ohio. The problem I have with Lillie is I don't know her last name as she allegedly had a different father whose name I don't know. So, some progress on the elusive Morris, or Moishe, or who knows? K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:20:31 -0800 From: "the cohens" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PBS] Surname Shacher To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Or even Schacher? I found a few trees for the Schacher surname at: http://tribalpages.com/tribe/ancestors?fname=&lname=schacher&dyf=&dyt= With transcription and translation errors, any spelling that sounds the same could be a possible match. But there also are a lot of hits for your exact Shacher surname at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi Maybe researchers of the same surname can tell you a lot more if you contact the ones whose trees seem like your family might be related. *************************************************