Hello List I think I have traced my wife's Yorkshire NORMAN line back to 1680 but am investigating some unproven links. One concerns a John NORMAN bap Darfield, Yorks 18 May 1776. It seems he emigrated to the USA and died in Illinois aged 73 in 1849. I do not have access to ships passenger lists or American naturalisation records ( as available on Ancestry Worldwide subscription). I wonder if anyone has, or can find, any records about his passage to the USA or his becoming a US citizen ? It seems he was living in Yorkshire until at least 1815 and may also have lived in the USA from an early age until sometime before his marriage in England in about 1794. Also interested in Joseph ( Lafayette ?) NORMAN, said to be father of above. Born in England, probably Yorkshire 1750. Lived in USA at least from 1777 (when he married Eleanor (Nellie) Bartlett in Orange County, N Carolina) until his death in 1809 in Orange County, NC. Any records of his passage to the USA or his becoming a US citizen would be very helpful. Ancestry does have quite a few public family trees with details of these two NORMANs but source details are not clear. There was a flurry of interest in these NORMANs on various Rootsweb lists about 5 years ago but nothing really fully sourced as far as I can see. Thanks Ian L