This was posted to the Baden-Wurttemberg list, but it looks like it fits this list too. Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:12:07 -0700 From: "Roberta" <[email protected]> Subject: [BW] Passenger lists MIS~FILED To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I'm sure I've mentioned how fortunate I am that my family has been relatively EASY to back track into Germany. BUT BEFORE this, there was the back track paper trail of census records that led us to the emigration records and manifests. In spite of one census records saying my ancestor was from Austria and another year from Bavaria and yet another year Wurttemberg. My cousin had written to the LDS center in Utah (way before the internet genealogy explosion) and they found the lone manifest he failed to find because it was kept in the wrong place had been MIS~FILED, and not where it should have been with the other passenger records! It was a needle in a haystack finding for our family, which proved to be the biggest brick wall smasher in the quest. Not only that, it was a record that had been lost FOR YEARS and no one had known about this lonely little ship list. If anyone is looking for the USS Brig CHIPOLA that left June1837 and arrived in Pennsylvania in July 1837 I have that record and will be happy to share it. Roberta Baezner Chesley