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From: Eliz Hanebury <>
Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Found passenger list, now what?
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:02:23 -0400
References: <17D311102B7744C0B1CB52FE0D1CC1D9@mdgoffPC>
In-Reply-To: <17D311102B7744C0B1CB52FE0D1CC1D9@mdgoffPC>

If he gave the answer Prussia you can at least tell he was from the
Kingdom of Prussia <G> after that it is long slow work.




Eliz

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Mike or Denise Goff <> wrote:
> The info about German brick walls has some good sites. I have found
> ancestors on the ship list.  He is Philip Abraham a 22 yr. old merchant on
> the Brig Oceanus sailing from Bremen to NY on July, 1845. Everyone onboard
> is marked from Germany. In following years, the NY (Manhattan) census says
> that he was from Prussia. How can I tell where he is really from? What town?
> Who his parents are? Seems impossible - I am just glad to have found him.
> Denise
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• [ROOTS-L] Found passenger list, now what? by "Mike or Denise Goff" <>

  • Re: [ROOTS-L] Found passenger list, now what? by Eliz Hanebury <>