On 26 May 2006 at 6:00, Kimberly Prell Clark wrote: > More About AUGUST FRIEDRICH WILHELM PRELL: Immigration: Abt. > 1852, New York I just noticed your place of arrival (NY). So here's a better answer than my last one :-) You might want to check the free online project to fill in the 1847-1892 index gap for passenger arrival records in New York. This project consists of 3 sets of records: 1. NY Times extracts for ship arrivals and passenger names 2. Images (and some accompanying transcripts) of actual passenger lists in this time period 3. NY Almshouse records for 1855-1858 (contains year of arrival and ship name) The complete index of NY Times years and shipping news extracts is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/nytimes.htm Images of ships passenger lists for these Unindexed NY years are online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ The Almshouse Records start at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ny_alms1855.htm Also check online ships and links to ships in this time period starting att http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_ny182549.shtml Also try Steve Morse's one steps for Castle Garden and earlier, at http://www.stevemorse.org/ Lorine -- 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/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com