The index is pretty good in the 1870s, so it might be that there is a
different spelling...nothing even close as you have it now.
Gene
At 10:23 PM 2/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
Eugene,
Thanks for offering to do the lookup. Would you please check for a
Henry/Heinrich Schmiedel, immigrating 1873, d.o.b. ~1840.
Barbara
"Eugene M. Wengert" wrote:
>
> I have had only 12 sets of requests. I have answered all of them already.
> I did indeed find some good stuff for some poeple.
>
> GERMANS TO AMERICA has about 85 volumes--they are adding more all the time.
> Each volume, listing several thousand passengers by arrival date starting
> in 1850, has its own index, so it is helpful to have a master index (like I
> do) so I can search all the volumes at once electronically. In the early
> dates, the authors only listed ships where the majority of the people were
> German, so in the 1850s, the volumes are not too thorough. They do get
> better. If I cannot find your person, try different spellings--the old
> German farmers didn't spell too well I guess, or maybe it is us???
>
> Some people have sent me only a name (like George Mueller) and there must
> be 50 people with that name. Another sent me a common name and said he was
> born in the 1830 to 1840 range, which again is too broad to help find their
> person. Another sent me some Russiam names, even though one might think
> that the people had to be German--wouldn't you think? And another sent be
> a very rare name--spelled the way she spelled it, there was not one of the
> nearly one million names I have in the index spelled that way. Be creative
> in your spellings; maybe the ship's captain was French and couldn't spell
> the German correctly. A good book about all this is THEY CAME IN SHIPS.
>
> To repeat--send me first name, surname, dob and date of immigration. It
> helps if you have names fo others that were traveling together--sometimes a
> rare first name, like Xavier, is the clue we need to find them. I can only
> look at 1850-1888 arrivals.
>
> If I find the reference, then go to the original manifest (microfilm) to
> probably find out more. I found that my 3gr grandfather came over with his
> eventuial bride and her family--maybe there was a budding romance on board?
> We'll never know, but it is fun to speculate...
>
> One of the strangest ones was a rare surname (Dehmer) with a first name of
> Joe. However, there were no Joe Dehmer's listed, but there was an August
> and a Franz Dehmer from the correct city. When I went to the microfilm, as
> the date was in the right time period, I found that the folks at Ellis
> Island had crossed off the names of two Joe Dehmers from the same city, on
> the same ship, that arrived together and made them change their name (used
> their middle names). The "Joe" for both is clearly seen in the record as
> that was doen by the ship's captain! When I told this to my wife, she
> recollected the story, but she had not recalled it for many years and it
> might of been forgotten if.....
>
> Anyway--send in more requests if you have some.
>
> Gene
>
> Gene Wengert
> Professor of Wood Processing, Emeritus
> Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
> &
> President
> The WoodDoctor's Rx, LLC
> 2872 Charleston Drive, Madison, WI 53711-6502
> 608-271-4441
> Preferred e-mail: WoodDoc(a)Badger.Alumni.Wisc.edu
Gene Wengert
Professor of Wood Processing, Emeritus
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
&
President
The WoodDoctor's Rx, LLC
2872 Charleston Drive, Madison, WI 53711-6502
608-271-4441
Preferred e-mail: WoodDoc(a)Badger.Alumni.Wisc.edu