Placxe of origin usually refers to departure point on a trip -- this may or may not be the home port for the ship in question. The ship manifest will give place of last residence. Have you seen it? . . . --- On Wed, 9/2/09, Leslie KOHLER <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Leslie KOHLER <[email protected]> > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Emigration Record Question > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 9:33 AM > Hello, > > The emigration record that I found for my dear husband's > great-grandfather has been translated to American English > at Ancestry.com (which actually works better for me, as I > do > not know the German Language). > > That translation shows these items: > > 1) Name: Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Koehler > > 2) Age: 26 > > 3) Place of Origin: Melzow > > 4) Destination: Amerika (USA) > > 5) Year: 1863 > > 6) Birth Date: 22 Sep 1837 > > 7) Birth Location: Klinkow > > And, we know from other matching records, > that this is indeed 'our' Christian. > > Since we have found the names of Christian's parents, > (from his American marriage record) it would help me > now to know  what the difference would be between the > > "Place of Origin" and "Place of Birth". > ><<SNIP>>

Thanks. To date I've never found definitive information as to what ship he arrived on. I just keep looking, whenever I can, in the hope that I will eventually find that particular ship manifest... and, hopefully, siblings of Christian's. ---- "Stanley M. Berkner" <[email protected]> wrote: Placxe of origin usually refers to departure point on a trip -- this may or may not be the home port for the ship in question. The ship manifest will give place of last residence. Have you seen it? --- On Wed, 9/2/09, Leslie KOHLER <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Leslie KOHLER <[email protected]> > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Emigration Record Question > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 9:33 AM > Hello, > > The emigration record that I found for my dear husband's > great-grandfather has been translated to American English > at Ancestry.com (which actually works better for me, as I > do > not know the German Language). > > That translation shows these items: > > 1) Name: Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Koehler > > 2) Age: 26 > > 3) Place of Origin: Melzow > > 4) Destination: Amerika (USA) > > 5) Year: 1863 > > 6) Birth Date: 22 Sep 1837 > > 7) Birth Location: Klinkow > > And, we know from other matching records, > that this is indeed 'our' Christian. > > Since we have found the names of Christian's parents, > (from his American marriage record) it would help me > now to know  what the difference would be between the > "Place of Origin" and "Place of Birth". ><<SNIP>>