This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFC.2ACI/536.1.1.1.1.1.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Terry: Went to the arhives yesterday and went through all the Alberts in the soundex index for Lawin for the border crossings from Canada. Those from Germany, and there were very few, were not even close to the name Lawin. These border crossing from Canada records only go back to 1895, so I didn't try Denien. I can go into passenger lists directly looking for sailings from Hamburg or other German cities, if there are any. Have you done this? It is quite a task, tho, and I wouldn't do it unless you had a month and year however specutlatively (I know there is something wrong with that word). Jim