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From: Dave Crane <>
Subject: Re: [G-T] New Homes In a New Land, German Immgr. to TX by Geue
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:15:03 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000701c20903$2c5deca0$99fd58d8@temp8>


>The City (or Port) of Galveston has a seaport museum which has all known and
>identified immigrants in their data base. One can visit the museum, enter
>the name, and learn whether or not the person is listed.

I should point out that the database at that museum is really bad. There
are a LOT of transcription errors, as though they hired a bunch of monkeys
to do the typing. I found a relative who arrived in Texas before he left
Germany and that error does not occur anywhere but in the Galveston (for
profit) seaport museum.

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