Hello listers!! Thank you, Terissa, for seeing what I missed, as you say, I must have been looking at too many pages for too long. Anyway, I honestly did not have much hope of ever finding any solid clues on my Valentin Straube. I have been looking for years, but every record I found or ordered always said they were just from Poland or Prussia, never a more specific place. I had all but given up when I started looking at the Hamburg passenger lists which covered the time period that I suspected they immigrated at, which was from 1855 - 1857. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw the proof that it was my Valentin Straube, as wife Catherina is with him and young son ( under 1 year ) Valerian. I phoned my friend who speaks German and she helped me with most of the translation of the passenger list, but I would really appreciate if someone can look at this record and tell me what they see under the "Geburts und Wohnort" column. Record is found on Ancestry as: Valentin SRAUBE in Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1859, Indirekt band 004, page 72, line 5. It looks to me to be ESCIN of EXIN ? Would that be Essen? This is the one I'm dying to find out - where they came from. Also please look at the column Gewerbe ( trade?) I can't make out his and his wife's trade. Also, could someone please translate the following: "nach New York via Hull and Liverpool zur Auswanderung durch Unterzeichneten engagirt sind." New York is USA, Liverpool is England but where is Hull? The only Hull I know is in Canada, by Ottawa. It really is true what many people say, that is, to never give up the search of finding records, even this far back, now if I could only have the same luck with my Irish potatoe famine ancestors immigrating to Canada around 1847. Thanks so much for anyone who can read German and have a look at the above record. Sincerely, Judy Carleton Blackfalds, Alberta, Canada