The book, "America Experienced, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Accounts of Swiss Immigrants to the United States", has a large number of first person accounts of immigrants written between 1704 and 1906. This is a great book if you are interested in the immigrants. It has been out of print for a while but is now available again from Picton Press. My particular interest is early eighteenth century immigration to South Carolina. The most common route at that time was Rotterdam to Cowes, England (Isle of Wright) to Charleston, SC to Philadelphia, PA, then back to Europe. This was the traditional sailing route taking advantage of prevailing winds and currents. My ancestors voyage, which was described as: "During the whole voyage we had steadily good wind and weather ...", took 9 weeks from Rotterdam to Charleston in early summer, 1735. Immigration to Carolina was being heavily promoted in Switzerland in the early eighteenth century and some Swiss officials dubbed the madness "Rabies Carolina". Some of the promotional pamphlets being circulated in Switzerland at the time are on our society's website: http://www.ogsgs.org/recruit.htm. Jim Rickenbacker Kingwood, TX Home Page: http://borisbrooks.com OGSGS Home Page: http://ogsgs.org