Until 5 years ago I lived in the Dallas, TX area where I used the microfilms at the Dallas Main Library location in 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. Since that time, we moved to the St. Louis and I've tried to again locate what I found on the microfilms in TX at the St. 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. My g-grandfather's name was Jacob Kaspar (listed on the manifest as Casper), a clergyman that was listed in the Cabin section with possibly 4 other clergymen of about the same age, on the ship Saxonia and all from Switzerland. They were all accepting calls to the Texas German speaking Protestant communities North and West of Houston. Was what I saw in Dallas a figment of my imagination or was it real? Gary Hoffstetter