All one hears today is the horror of what happened aboard the Titanic... Multiply that XXXs over for what so many of our ancestors went through just to get here...and their experience wasn't over then. But, the tragedy of the Titanic is just a modern version of the horrors suffered by the emigrant in the centuries before them. One of my Kinzer ancestors came over on a ship that was so racked by disease and death that the carpenter of the ship was the only one left alive who could bring the ship into port. Norma, hope you have a Blessed, Happy New Year!! Diana