[hoosiermama]

Some of our German ancestors came in through the port at Galveston....Illegally so I've been told. Came up the Mississippi to the Ohio to Southern Indiana....Open a stone quarry (One of the first in the state) and built several still standing public buildings.....The grave maker business still stand on the same corner although it has changed hand many many times.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

A lot of people don't know that the port of Galveston was one of the official immigration points, like Ellis Island. They've had a searchable database online for years now. Or did. Their server might be down!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Some of our German ancestors came in through the port at Galveston....Illegally so I've been told. Came up the Mississippi to the Ohio to Southern Indiana....Open a stone quarry

My German ancestors were draft dodgers from the old Prussian/Alsace (-1 sp) wars. Came in the mid 1840's (not from Galveston - the port that wiped out by a hurricane) and made their through TX to Bastrop area building chimneys and foundations for the first houses.

Family legend says the bases and chimneys are still standing as old barns and underneath renovated country homes.