Emily Young wrote: > My gr gr grandmother, Elizabeth (PFRUNDER) ZWEIFEL left Switzerland in > the autumn of 1848, according to the State Archives of Canton Glarus. > She was a widow, with 3 young boys. > > Just recently I stumbled on some information about Cholera in New York > City. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, 5 Dec. 1848 there was a ship > named New York that arrived in New York from Le Havre, France on 1 Dec. > 1848 with some 19 cases of Cholera & 6 or 7 having already died. The > emigrants were mostly German & Swiss. That ship's list has been indexed at the Castle Garden website: http://www.castlegarden.org/searcher.php Search for: Ship = New York Port of Departure = Havre (not Le Havre) Date = 1848-1848 The results will show all passengers for all arrivals in that year, and you'll have to sift through them. I didn't see anything resembling Zweifel, but I only looked at the surnames beginning with S and Z. You may find some more convoluted spelling. Good luck! Kathy Good luck!