I don't know about Swiss emigration routes. My personal knowledge is with emigration from the upper Rhine in Germany(near the Swiss border). German emigrants from the Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemburg (and probably also Alsacians and Swiss Germans) in the 1700's went down the Rhine to Rotterdam. A ship could not legally go to the British colonies except from another British possession. So the ship from Rotterdam made a stop in an English port, typically Cowles or Plymouth, to clear customs and immigration. Emigrants just stayed on the ship while this formality was covered. Then the ship proceeded to North America. The male emigrants 16 years and older who arrived on these ships had to sign several documents when they arrived promising to be loyal to the King and that they didn't agree with the doctrine advocated by some Catholics that it was OK to assasinate a non-Catholic king. Arrival records often are compiled from these documents. Therefore, you should be able to find evidence of many of your immigrant ancestors from German Switzerland who arrived in the 1700's. It sounds plausible that other (non-German) Protestant Swiss would have also gone this route to avoid Catholic persecussion in France. Paul Rands (near Portland, Oregon) _________________________________________________________________ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp