Nancy - I do not find in Swiss Surnames any BOMMER family in ST. Gallen but they are in canton Thurgau from an early period. Canton Thurgau - Griensenberg (a) from before 1800 Lommis (b) - 1800 to about 1850 from Tagerschen TG Oberbussnang (a) Strohwilen (a) Reuti (a) Tagerschen (a) - umlaut over the "a" Thundorf - (a) Tobel (a) Wangi (a) - umlaut over the "a" Weinfelden - (a) Weingarten (a) In Mario Van Moos "Bibliography of Swiss Genealogies: there is the following Klaui,Hans: Aus der Geschichte der Familie Bommer von Wolfikon-Strohwilen/.TG. (Betrifft auch die Familie Ziegler von Winterthur.) Oberwinterthur - 1959 62 S., Anhang (in Staatsarchiv Zurich. As for writing for passenger list information you would need to write to the National Archives - and not Dept of Immigration ---- however, check out yourlocal family history center first. Most of the records have been filmed aand are on microfilm and many of them areindexed. If you know the time and area of the immigration that would be a help. The big stumbling block is if they came into New York there is no index for the years 1847 to 1892 (inclusive) so this would be quite a search for you. But anyway check with the Family History Center first. Hope this will be of help to you. Goodluck and good hunting. Joe Wolfe On 03 Feb 00 15:50:02 -0500 Nancy Bommer <nbommer@resource.com> writes: > Has anyone had any luck obtaining passenger list information from the > US Dept. of Immigration? If so did you call them or write them? Do > you have that address or phone number? Thank you in advance for any > help. > > Searching Surname: BOMMER > Fridolin came to US from St. Gallen in approx 1866 with wife and 1yr > son. > > > ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the > Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > > > > ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb! Help provide FREE genealogical resources on the > Internet: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >