How to overcome the impasse in their genealogy?

I'm trying to research my family and I found my great-grandmother's name, birth in a list of ancient craft in a family Bible. It was great because he had his date of arrival in America and the name of the ship. I looked but she was not there. Now I'm stuck. The writer of the book he gave his mother that has passed.

What works to finish my * dead * not going to work for their dead end, except to suggest keeping an open mind to alternative sources. For example .. of thousands of people left long before Ellis Island or Castle Garden .. not to mention that many immigrants went through other entry points. When you say "looked", where to look? Ancestry passenger lists has NY. That does not apply to Somone that came through New Orleans, and will not work for someone in the 1860s. You may be the only surviving record (through the Bible), ie name of vessel could be correct, but no passenger list survives. Or, it could be in a foreign protocol, which has made no effort to transcribe, or put it online. When possible, it is important to try to confirm the facts of others. Sometimes that is not possible. Assuming your goal is to find their parents, truth is that you have the same options as you might for other ancestors, which could come to church records of his birth in another country, another research etc. Too bad you can not see the entry Bible, however, it appears that the entry of birth will be different from the entry of arrival, as the facts may be years apart. Both entries were made in the time that happened? No way to be sure. Many stories of many families to trace family abroad without the benefit of confirming a passenger list. Analyze the best we can, and if you can not "prove" the entry of arrival, proceed to the work of the other details of his life, depending on what is out there. As often repeated .. Not all online.

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