My great grandfather's immigration papers (Anton Schoenberger) say that he arrived at the port of New York Sep 1893 from Bavaria. I have never found a passenger list or ship for him at Ellis Island, Ancestry, Castle Garden, or ISTG. Are there other sources available to me? David Schoenberger, North Carolina

On 11 Jun 2006 at 22:18, David Schoenberger wrote: > My great grandfather's immigration papers (Anton > Schoenberger) say that he arrived at the port of New York > Sep 1893 from Bavaria. > > I have never found a passenger list or ship for him at Ellis > Island, Ancestry, Castle Garden, or ISTG. Are there other > sources available to me? > If your ancestor arrived in 1893 that is far too late for Castle Garden. As you no doubt realize, Ellis Island records are online. They include ships to New York from 1892-1924 You should use Steve Morse's one-step search engine to search this set of records, at http://stevemorse.org/ There is a quick tutorial on how best to use the search engines at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ Click on "Oddities of Searching Ellis Island! What have you found? " Be very very careful to be creative in your ancestors surname spelling! Also, since you have a month and year, why not search using Steve's One steps for ships arriving that month? Both NARA & LDS have films with the New York passenger lists. You could search through microfilm (but you can also do this online) Ships are on the reels in order of date of arrival, so all you need to do is find the film number that has your arrival date on it. Then order it in to a nearby Family History Centre, or request a lookup from NARA. When you get the film, scroll through to find your date but if your ship isn't there, be sure to check more thoroughly on the film - the lists aren't always exactly in chronological order. For a complete list of film numbers for ships (and passenger lists) going to New York after 1820, see http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/filmnos_newyork.shtml Also see the URLs below: http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/filmnos_newyork.shtml NARA & FHC film numbers for NY passenger lists after 1820 http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_ny.shtml Passenger Lists to New York all years http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/searchnyships.shtml Search Engine for online Internet Passenger Lists to NY