From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 23 10:31:52 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6NGVqjb012419; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:31:52 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6NGVoP0000320 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:31:51 -0600 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 k6NDrYFI009162 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:53:34 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6NDrYhI009161 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:53:34 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6NDZoFI009078 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:35:50 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6NGDuvS006771 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:13:56 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paulette@chodovepeople.com Sun Jul 23 10:13:56 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6NGDujb006760 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:13:56 -0600 Received: from rhoda.hostingwithus.net (server.advanceservers.com [72.36.236.42] (may be forged)) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6NGDoTm022929 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:13:51 -0600 Received: from static24-89-86-174.regina.accesscomm.ca ([24.89.86.174] helo=[192.168.123.175]) by rhoda.hostingwithus.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1G4gaM-0004rq-Vo for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:13:43 -0500 Message-ID: <44C39FFA.4060404@chodovepeople.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:12:42 -0600 From: Paulette Gilchuk Reply-To: paulette@chodovepeople.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] A. Urban Europe to NYC @1949 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - rhoda.hostingwithus.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - rootsweb.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - chodovepeople.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: 1.31 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Carolyn, I headed to google and typed in --Sea Lion ship port-- Take a look at this, but it does say it was scrapped in 1945. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/page8.html This one shows a ship built in 1984: http://www.schoonerman.com/talls.shtml This one is a bit confusing but looks to be the right one: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wajcgs/mariners/capts.html As for Ems: (google - I searched for --mouth of the Ems port--) http://www.answers.com/topic/emden-1 Emden (e(m*'*d?n) , city (1994 pop. 52,200), Lower Saxony, NW Germany, at the mouth of the Ems River, the terminus of the Dortmund-Ems and Ems-Jade canals. A major North Sea port, it has extensive shipyards and herring fisheries. Hope this helps a bit! Paulette www.chodovepeople.com Eliz Hanebury wrote: > If you have no luck here join TheShipsList at rootwebs I feel so > silly > the Ems is tickling but I can't quite get it. I feel sure it is an > abbreviation > > Eliz > > On 7/22/06, Carolyn Hudson wrote: > >> >> I have located a file which indicates an ancestor, A. Urban, sailed >> from a >> port called Ems to New York on board a ship called Sea Lion. I have >> been >> unable to determine where the Port Ems is located and can find no >> listing >> of >> a ship called Sea Lion. The time frame, i.e. arrival date of Aug. 27, >> 1949, >> is about right. Can anyone help? Thanks >> Carolyn Hudson >> >> > > >