From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Jan 1 12:29:48 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j01JTmhh030121; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:29:48 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01JTmxt007615 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:29:48 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01IF1tW014174 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:15:01 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id j01IF1o1014173 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:15:01 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01DQetW013579 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 08:26:40 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id j01EfJEB027638 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 07:41:19 -0700 X-Envelope-From: otg@csolve.net Sat Jan 1 07:41:19 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j01EfJhh027629 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 07:41:19 -0700 Received: from diablo.csolve.net (diablo.csolve.net [207.61.27.158]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01EfIxt003048 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 07:41:18 -0700 Received: from barrie-dialport-216.209.18.24.csolve.net ([216.209.18.24] helo=Lorine1) by diablo.csolve.net with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CkkRT-0000Wq-RI; Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:41:21 -0500 From: "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" Organization: Olive Tree Genealogy To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:41:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-to: otg@csolve.net CC: "Linda Cox" Message-ID: <41D67037.29114.19EF19@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200412311900.iBVJ0gcp000618@lists5.rootsweb.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Olive Tree On 31 Dec 2004 at 12:00, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:42:43 -0600 > From: "Linda Cox" > Subject: Olive Tree > > Lorine, First of all, I would like to thank you for the > wonderful site and all the hard work and patience you show. > I have spent quite a bit of time looking for the arrival of > my gg grandparents and have not had any luck. I am hoping > you might be able to point me in the right direction. I am > looking for the Bornhauser family that arrived in the United > States in 1882. They were from Winefelden, Switzerland. > They settled in West Virginia. Any suggestions? I must be > missing something. Thanks again for all you do. Linda Cox Hi Linda, Thank you for your kind words about Olive Tree Genealogy. It's a huge site and requires patience but the hunt is worth it IMO :-) For the time period of your Bornhauser family arrival, you're in luck because most ports of arrival have been indexed, and are on microfilm. New York is the exception, the only index for this year is Ancestry.com's index and manifest images online For other ports, you can order the film in to a nearby FHC or have NARA do lookups. you can get a list of film numbers (NARA & FHC) at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nara_indexbyport.shtml Scroll down to the state you want and click on the link, then find the film # you need The staff of the National Archives will undertake a search of the original records for a fee To obtain a search request form, write to: General Reference Branch (NNRG), National Archives and Records Administration, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408 and request NATF Form 81, Order for Copies of Ship Passenger Arrival Records. To find your nearest FHC you can go to http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp You may find your ancestors arrival online but the ships that have been transcribed and put online on websites like Olive Tree are only a tiny fraction of the totals, so don't be surprised if your ancestors aren't found. If you want to check NY arrivals, your best bet is Ancestry's online index - and I'd use their Free Trial if I were you. If you go to http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ancestry14dayfree.html you'll find a complete list of all their Free Trials (as well as Genealogy.com's FTs). These are truly free, you have to give a credit card number but that's so they can prevent folks taking more than one Free Trial - and as long as you cancel before your time period is up, you won't be charged. Have you checked Naturalization Records? They may help you narrow the search for the those immigration records. The 1900, 1910 ,1920 and 1930 census identify citizenship status, with notations showing the individual was an Alien, or had started the Naturalization process or had his final papers. You can look for naturalization records at http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/ Be sure to read the intro to Naturalization records, then click on the state you want, then choose ONLINE records (for a Directory of Links to all online records for that state) then OFFLINE records to get the Resource Guide that explains what is available and where it is. Let the pages load before you start clicking, and be sure to read all the way to the bottom You can read more about the value of census records in your search for an immigrant ancestor at http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/census.shtml Good luck! Lorine -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com