At 03:18 PM 2006-06-29 -0600, Linda McDermott wrote: >My grandparents also, both sailed from Goteborg, Sweden...one in 1887 and >the other in 1889. They each boarded the ship "Orlando" and sailed from >Goteborg to Hull, England...and then traveled by rail to >Liverpool. Finding the next ship that took them to America was hard. In >fact, I still have not found the one my grandmother sailed on. I know >coming from Sweden to Hull, England took I believe about three days; then >time to cross by rail to Liverpool, and then they had to wait for the next >ship across the Atlantic. They both, according to the Orlando manifests, >sailed into New York City, but I can't find them on Castle Garden for that >time period. I'd also learned to add on two weeks for the crossing to >calculate a date for arriving at the port in NYC. >Linda Hi Linda, If their destination port on the ORLANDO list(s) was indicated as New York, then likely they did arrive via that port. The Castle Garden website records are not complete yet, but don't forget that you could be looking for spelling variations, or transcriber interpretations ;-{ As I'd mentioned to Marjorie, if your Swedish emigration information includes the name of the Swedish "Agent," then that will be a great clue for you. Also, if you know the date of departure from Goteborg, another great website is the Norway Heritage site http://www.norwayheritage.com/ It won't list the sailing dates from Goteborg for the ORLANDO, but it will include the same sailing date (or very close) for other Wilson Line feeder ships sailing from Christiania (Oslo). The ships took the same time to sail from Goteborg and Christiania, to Hull, so both Swedes and Norwegians emigrating at the same time would have embarked on the same ships at Liverpool. Trond has created a database "Emigrant ship arrivals 1870-1894" compiled from newspaper reports and telegrams home to Norway, confirming the mostly North American arrivals of emigrants on which ship. The best way to use the database is to go to this database "Index of departures 1825-1925" pick the year . . for example . . 1887 http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_year.asp?ye=1887 then click on the "details" link for one of the feeder ships sailing from Christiania - Christiansand, to Hull. From the page returned, pick the date equal to or close to your Goteborg departure date, and click on the ship wheel beside that record. . . for example . . I picked June 10th 1887 and it returns this page which is the ROLLO http://www.norwayheritage.com/t_corresp.asp?id=2140 In the "M" column, an arrow equals a confirmed connect for ROLLO passengers, but no arrow doesn't mean no connecting passengers . . .just no report of connecting passengers. I know this above sounds complicated, but it isn't at all and is a fabulous under utilized resource which I use ALL the time :-} Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/