Searching for Immigration Records about Conrad Sitter

Dear Ms. Sitter,

Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

Until January 1, 1820, the U.S. Federal Government did not require captains or masters of vessels to present a passenger list to U.S. officials. Thus, as a general rule, NARA does not have passenger lists of vessels arriving before January 1, 1820. There are, however, two exceptions to this general rule.

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located the Work Projects Administration Transcript of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1813-1849 in the Records of the National Archives and Records Administration (Record Group 64) that includes the digitized Passenger Lists, 1818-1838 (M2009). The digital images are available using the Catalog

We also located the Index to Vessels Entering the Port of Philadelphia, ca. 1800 - ca. 1880 (M360) and the Inward Foreign Manifests for the Port of Philadelphia, 8/10/1789 - 3/23/1931 (part of M425) in the Records of the U.S. Customs Service (Record Group 36) that may include the arrival of Conrad Sitter. For access to M360 & M425, please contact the National Archives at Philadelphia (RE-PA) via email at philadelphia.archives@nara.gov.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and pursuant to guidance received from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), NARA has adjusted its normal operations to balance the need of completing its mission-critical work while also adhering to the recommended social distancing for the safety of NARA staff. As a result of this re-prioritization of activities, you may experience a delay in receiving an initial acknowledgement as well as a substantive response to your reference request from RE-PA. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and patience.

For his birth records, we suggest that you review the listing of German Libraries and Archives For early North Carolina birth records, please review the collections of the State Archives of North Carolina. For Illinois death records, please review the records at the Illinois State Archives.

Also, review the FamilySearch Research wiki concerning Germany Finding Town of Origin, North Carolina genealogy, and Illinois genealogy.

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!

Hi Andrea

Welcome to History Hub

Conrad Sitter 1790-1844

Had 17 children.

Settled in Illinois in 1817

found on findagrave.com

can click on names of other family members buried there Caleb is not mentioned.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36323573/conrad-sitter

Your family tree is on familysearch.org...it  is a free website, you will need to

register to search.  after you register click on link below

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/MYGK-J5C

Alice Lane

Research Volunteer

Hi Andrea,

I have the same question.  I have a pretty robust family tree of the Sitters from Conrad forward to present.  Alot of it is on family search.  Drop me a line and I will be willing to share what I know.  Thanks for the question - the above answer from the moderator gives me some direction as well.

Jill Sitter

Hi Andrea,

unfortunately I can not give a direct answer to your question, but maybe the following helps a little bit.

First I would suggest to be very cautious with the links of family trees on familysearch and also ancestry.

Alice Lane posted a link to a tree on familysearch which is different from a tree I found on ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/3730554/person/-1693519723/facts?_phsrc=IhD16&_phstart=successSource . Conrad Sitter seems to be the same, but the parents who are linked are different. Even the parents of his wife are not the same. In the ancestry-tree he was born 1785 in Dietenhausen, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, the familysearch-tree has his birth for 1790 (no place) but his parents marriage for 1791 in Rutherford, North Carolina.

Second: The two different family trees suggest both two different variants of the family name. Ancestry has a father Conrad Seiter, familysearch has Konrad Zitter. Both names are German family names too, so it is quiet possible that your Conrad Sitter was actually Seiter or Zitter.

Good luck,

Sabine

Hi Andrea,

for the case that your Conrad Sitter actually had the family name Seiter and was from Baden-Württemberg you could try

to contact this archive

https://www.auswanderer-bw.de/auswanderer/index.php?sprache=de&suche=1

https://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/DOKUMENT/labw_auswanderer/7123/Auswanderer+aus+Dietenhausen

Another good link for German genealogy would be

http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Main_Page

In a Metasearch https://meta.genealogy.net/?lang=en it is possible to search for names and places with the possibility of finding new sources.

This is a collection of links for German Emigration

http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Auswanderung/Linkliste . It is in German but the google translator could probably help a little.

Sabine