My Thomas Wm. SNOWDON, his wife Marjorie and daughter Agnes sailed from Scotland to the U.S. and settled in the town of Scofield, Carbon County, Utah in the period 1887 - 1889, where they remained until 1900. Thomas was listed as an Apprentice Fitter at age 19. Would anyone hazard a guess as to:- a. What purpose would they go to that location? b. What would most likely be their port of entry? Thank you. Dave. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/358 - Release Date: 6/7/2006

On 8 Jun 2006 at 9:24, Dave Dixon wrote: > My Thomas Wm. SNOWDON, his wife Marjorie and daughter Agnes > sailed from Scotland to the U.S. and settled in the town of > Scofield, Carbon County, Utah in the period 1887 - 1889, > where they remained until 1900. Thomas was listed as an > Apprentice Fitter at age 19. Would anyone hazard a guess as > to:- > > a. What purpose would they go to that > location? b. What would most likely be > their port of entry? > It's hard to say what port --- usually you would try the ports closest to the destination but that's not always the case. However, there are indexes to ships passenger lists for most ports for the time period of interest to you. You can get a list of film numbers (NARA & FHC) at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nara_indexbyport.shtml Scroll down to the state you want and click on the link, then find the film # you need, then decide whether to order it in to a nearby FHC or have NARA do a lookup. The staff of the National Archives will undertake a search of the original records for a fee. To find your nearest FHC you can go to http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp There are some ideas for researching hard to find ancestors on ships lists after 1820 at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/usaaft1820.shtml You might also want to try naturalization records, if you need to narrow your time span for looking. There is an explanation and Resource Guide to Naturalization Records at http://naturalizationrecords.com/ For a Resource Guide to the records, what you can expect to find, where to find them, and alternate sources of finding those important years (immigration and naturalization) at http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/ Read the intro then choose your state of interest. There are also many links to searchable online naturalization records at http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/ Choose your state of interest from the list at the bottom of the page then click on ONLINE records. Good luck! Lorine --New Databases online http://olivetreegenealogy.com/freedata.shtml