Marianne - check the immigration records since you know the date of arrival. Jackie Deffes At 10:06 PM 6/7/99 -0700, you wrote: >This reminded me to ask a question I've been wondering about. Does anyone >know what happened to those "lost" lists? My g grandparents came from >Devonshire to Brazoria Co. and in my g grandfather's obituary it even gave >the date they arrived (Sept./Oct. of 1872). I am assuming they came in to >Galveston. Of course, 1872 is when there are no indexes. Do the actual >records exist and just haven't been indexed, or were the records lost? > >Thanks, >Marianne > >Bertha Ellen wrote: >>There is a SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS >>PORT of GALVESTON,TX >>1846-1871 >>some of the list is missing but the Galveston County Genealogical Society did >>their best to read the microflim {which is located at the Rosenberg Library >>in Galveston,TX} >> There is another book that I have seen at Clayton Library in Houston, TX, >>but its not indexed. > > >