I wrote about this trunk briefly almost ten years ago when I got it.
Hopefully if there's a little spare time this summer, I'll give another go at finding Altje in a passenger list.
She would have immigrated in the late 1860s-early 1870s. The name on the trunk is Ahltie F. Goldenstein--actually Altje.
Her destination of Keokuk Junction, Ills. is stamped on the trunk as well.
A wonderful piece.
Altje's brother Focke Goldenstein was my great-great-grandfather. She married Hinrich Schuster in Adams County, Illinois.
Hopefully we'll have an update in a future issue of Casefile Clues.
Readers are welcome to try their hand at locating her in the passenger lists at Ancestry.com and elsewhere. It's been several years since I really looked for her and maybe something has been re-indexed or corrected in the interim.
You may want to look at this - I think it may be her!
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about Treentji Goldenstein
Name: Treentji Goldenstein
Arrival Date: May 1892
Age: 24 Years 0 Months Years
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Gender: Female
Race: German
Ship Name: Oldenburg
Port of Arrival: Baltimore, Maryland
Destination: Illinois
Last Residence: Desdorf
Microfilm Roll Number: 2
Page: 253
Thanks, but that doesn't look like here. Altje was born in the 1850s and Trientje is a distinct different first name from Altje.
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