Mike: Merry Christmas to you too. I don't intend to bother you by asking for a lookup, but I would like to ask where you found all those lists. I've just finished going through the Rootsweb collection of ships' lists looking for New York Sweeneys, but I'm almost sure that the people I'm looking for were here before 1863. My mother had an Uncle Tim Sweeney on Staten Island. He was living on Barker Street when I knew him. Next I found in an 1886 Staten Island directory that there was a Timothy Sweeney on Barker Street back in those days. He wasn't the Uncle Tim I knew, who would have been about 10 or so in 1886 whereas the chap in the directory was working as a gardener and seems to have been a head of household. Finally, I discovered a Timothy Sweeney on Staten Island in the 1860 census; he may be the gardener from the 1886 directory, but he's not in your compilation of immigrants. I couldn't find any Timothy among the Sweeneys aboard the ships that Rootsweb has put online so far. I strongly suspect that this gardener chap was my great-grandfather, so I'd like to track him down, if possible. Here's all I know about him: My grandfather, Jim Sweeney, was Uncle Tim's older brother. According to the 1920 census their father was born in Ireland, and that's all it says about him--not even his name. I can't find him on my grandfather's birth record, because there are none preserved for Staten Island in 1869 when my grandfather was born. I could try a baptismal record, except that the parish that the family always used (including me) wasn't established until my grandfather was five years old. So can you give me some tips on other sources of immigrant ships? Seems to be my best bet as things stand at present. Thanks very much. Jim Donnelly Hyattsville, Maryland