Hi there, Judy- Sounds like you were just suffering from tired eyes (all too common when you're pouring through manifests manually). Valentin is in Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1859, Indirekt band 004, page 72, line 5. On 7/26/07, elista <elista@telusplanet.net> wrote: > > I am hoping someone knows how to look up the Ancestry Hamburg Passenger > lists. I found a possible entry on the Hamburg Passenger list handwritten > indexes, but I can't seem to find out where it is in the actually passenger > lists. I read the info on the Ancestry site, but I must be missing something > because I can't seem to find the proper page for the original record. > > I found the name - Valentin Straube - on the Hamburg Passenger List > handwritten indexes; click on 1855 - 1934; click on1855 - 1920 (Indirekt); > click on Band 01 (1855 - 1865 ); click on Surname S; click on page 9 of 40. > The record is just over half way down on the right hand side. It says his > name, then some writing I can't make out and then the number 143. I thought > the number 143 meant the page number for the actual record so I then went to > the Hamburg passenger list; click on 1850 - 1859; click on Indirekt Band 011 > for 1857; and then there is an option for 1 of 517 pages of original records > for 1857. I found numbers in the upper corners of the pages but for the one > that I thought was 143, ( around page 69 if I remember correctly) Valentine > Straube is not on that page, nor on any close pages that I could see. > > Does anyone know how to work with these records? Any assistance would be > greatfully appreciated. > Thanks in advance, > Judy > Alberta, Canada > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Terissa Schor terissa.schor@gmail.com