Re: Looking for Kerls family tree in Missouri
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Re: Looking for Kerls family tree in Missouri
Shanley Kerls 3/25/11
I've done a lot of searching for passenger lists, and Ancestry does have most of them.But some did not survive or were damaged by time, ink blots, etc. and sometimes handwriting or spelling are so badthat it's tough to identify the ancestors you seek.
But a general search for Clemens Kerls found this:
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
about Clemens Kerls Name: Clemens Kerls
Year: 1850
Place: New Orleans, Louisiana
Family Members: family
Source Publication Code: 3967
Primary Immigrant: Kerls, Clemens
Annotation: Rediscovered emigration lists from Bremen and Hamburg, Germany. From two ships' lists published in the newspaper Allgemeine Auswanderungs-Zeitung, Jahrgang 1849, no. 94, p. 375; and for 1850, no. 137, p. 547. The ship Itzstein and Welcker departed from Br
Source Bibliography: KLUEBER, KARL WERNER. "Wiedergefundene Bremer und Hamburger Auswandererlisten." In Genealogie, vol. 8:8 (Aug. 1966), pp. 329-332.
Page: 330
The more specific German listing that includes their village of origin and exact sailing date I found by following above with a Google search.
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Re: Looking for Kerls family tree in Missouri
john matthews 10/24/11