Really need some help on this one. I have thus far been quite successful in documenting and finding ancestors from Saar with one notable exception. That exception is finding information concerning emigration. I have lost count of the number of letters that I have written and in most cases go unanswered. JACOB WILHELM and wife ANNA MARIA SCHMITand 5 children lived in ASCHBACH/ASBACH near THALEXWEILER. They turn up frequently in the Catholic Church records for Thalexweiler until 1837. This entry is the birth date of one of their children. After this date, they disappear from the records of that parish. The earliest record in the U.S. is an entry in a Baltimore City Directory in 1842. It appears that the family left Germany between 1837 and 1842. I have written to the town of Eppelborn and various other people and places in that area and have never received an answer. Can anyone give me information on where to find the date of departure and port of arrival and also permission to emigrate for this family? I have searched some of the U.S. passenger Arrival Records(Baltimore, Philadelphia) but have drawn a blank there also. Any suggestions? Frank Kuhn flask1@worldnet.att.net