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The following documents are amazing in that they even still exist after all the long years, let alone were able to be located!
This is a copy of the actual equivalent of a passport, issued to Joseph Vetter by the Bavarian Government in 1852 prior to his departure and long journey to America.
This exceedingly rare document is a copy of the actual passenger manifest from the ship which transported Joseph to his new homeland in America.
This is a copy of the American Citizenship papers given to Joseph after being processed, probably through Ellis Island in NYC, and eventually settling in Cincinnati, OH.
While it is not know whether Joseph Vetter actually kept a journal, if he did, it would surely have had entries similar to these. We have Brendan Gormley, the great, great, great grandson of Joseph Vetter (The son of Christine (Vetter) Gormley) to thank for this, who came up with the idea of creating this journal as a school project.. The local newspaper, The Portsmouth Times, listed marriage licenses of the day, as it continues to do to this day. Here are photographs of both Joseph and his wife, whom he met and married after settling in Portsmouth.
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