I have finished the ship's manifest - The Steamer America, from Brehmen to New York, docking 14 June 1867. This is referred to as the Kickbusch ship, as August Kickbusch went from his home in Marathon County back to Germany and the story goes that he brought back 702 new immigrants to settle in Wisconsin - not all in Marathon County, but quite a few! Because of the difficulty in deciphering the names, I would like to ask if anyone has firm knowledge of an immigrant family and the name is incorrect, to let me know. I certainly would like all of you to read the foreword of the table, and give credit to Darlene Winter and to Amy Ryan-Conway for their help. Go to the Marathon County Home page, http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath/ <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath/"> Marathon County Wisconsin Genealogy Wigenweb</A> Click on Name Indexes, then on the Kickbusch Manifest. ALSO, I have streamlined (I think) the home pages for Marathon and Lincoln County. I don't like to have a lot of pictures and stuff on them, because not everyone has modern fast computers, and downloading takes forever! I did have someone who told me she was going to redesign my pages, but I never heard from her after the initial letter - she must have taken one look and was scared off! Anyway, that got me thinking that I could maybe clean up the pages. If anyone has any other suggestions for me, I am willing to listen - or if you hate the new design - whatever - let me know. Another thing - I just found about 4 generations of my family - because of the new [email protected] lists that Marcia Kuehl wrote about. I joined the Wisconsin one, and requested a look up. I was perhaps really lucky because the person who responded looked up 4 differnet censuses. If anyone needs the instructions on how to join these lists, e-mail me. And I just want to tell all of you I am so proud of you! I get many comments on how helpful the people on these lists are, and I quite agree. Thank you all, Shelley Marathon County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath Lincoln County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilincol Personal - http://members.aol.com/sdgreen715/index.html Mailing Lists: WIMARATH-L and WILINCOL-L