Hi Linda, You say that your ancestor "landed" at NY, and then proceeded to Panama Canal. Did he change ships? Or did the same ship continue on through the Canal after dropping passengers at NY? If you have the date and name of ship, it should tell you the last destination and that final date of arrival. Sounds like an interesting situation. Also, you state that even though he was from Switzerland, he shows up on Germans to America. A lot of the Swiss emigrants are on the Germans to America CDs because they were German. (Now, the CDs may even include the Swiss from the French and Italian cantons of CH.) Regards from Texas, USA Nellie, a 68-yr-old root digger