There was a post about the immigration lists at Castle Garden in New York, the predecessor of Ellis Island. I would like to add my two cents worth about other US ports. I do not know whether these lists are online or not, as some of the online materials are too late to help me with my *immigrant* problems. My English family who came to Frio Co., TX ca 1885, came in through Philadelphia. I found this information with my great-grandfather's land records, posted in Frio Co. Recently, I found the family on the immigration records newly posted to Ancestry.com, which my local Family History Center has on the computer, and now I know on which ship they came, and a few other items of interest. Some of my Germans who landed in San Antonio came in through New Orleans ca 1852, and I just happened to find that list in one of the early volumes of Germans to America, a growing collection of volumes. (Are these at the downtown San Antonio Public Library--the genealogy section?) And then there is my Ulster Irishman who came from Tennessee to help fight the Texas Revolution and who settled in Victoria Co. He was on the Kentucky frontier in 1820 in time to get married to a lady born in North Carolina. I cannot identify him on any list I have discovered so far, because he had a VERY common name. Could he have come in through Baltimore or Philadelphia? By the way, I noted on the ships list for my Germans that many of the other passengers on the ship Olbers stated their destination was St. Louis. Doubtless they were going on another boat ride!!! E.W.Wallace