> thank you for the replies. I was thinking more overland (or riverboat) because I've never found a northern immigration for him prior to 1883, and that one he was coming from England. so it wasn't in connection with him traveling from New Orleans to Boston. > > I still can't find him in the 1880, though I've really toyed with the search. very few German mariners show up, none with his name. very few people with either gos fukk or partial nme show up as sailors or mariners.