The exchanges on Germanic immigrants leaving from Le Havre, but isn't it true different ports were popular at different periods of history, depending largely on the needs of the big shipping vessels. They shipped our ancestors to America and picked up cotton etc. from America back to Europe. I'm sure you know that, but I didn't see it in what I read so far. Mine, probably Haussli, came from that area where France, Germany and Switzerland meet, but went out of Rotterdam in 1738-39, via England, and to Philadelphia. Good hunting! Ernie Heltsley