On 8 Sep 2008 at 7:49, Gary & Barbara Hoffstetter wrote: > downtown Dallas. Several years before we moved, I found my > g-grandfather listed on a microfilm for 1868 which landed in > New Orleans. He then went on to Galveston where he > eventually landed. Since most of the manifests have been > lost for Galveston, I wanted to get a copy of the one for > New Orleans. The film wasn't very good and the copy machine > wasn't very good which means I couldn't get a copy that I > could read. > Louis main library in downtown St. Louis. I couldn't find > him on their microfilm set! I've also tried to locate him > on ancestry.com without any success. I even tried to go > through all the ship's manifests for 1867-69 for New Orleans > without any success. > > > > I seem to recall that there are possibly two different sets > of microfilms for ship's manifests or the same manifests > with differing numbers. > > Gary, I don't know if this will help but the WPA (Works Project Administration) indexed names for New Orleans passengers. Vols. 1, 2 and 3 of the 6 volumes they prepared are found on microfilm M2009 from NARA. It covers the years 1813-1849. Vol. 5 is missing; Vol. 4 & 6 have not been filmed. See http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_la.shtml for information on these resources. For a complete list of NARA and FHC microfilm numbers for LA, see http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/filmnos_louisiana.shtml To find a ship to LA after 1820 you can search ONline transcriptions or OFFline microfilm records. Ships to Louisiana after 1820 can be found at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_la1820.shtml To use custom search engines to search multiple websites at once, see the page "Search FREE Ships Passenger Lists to Louisiana" (528 ships ) at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/searchlaships.shtml Good luck! -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ [email protected] or [email protected]