We have information that our family arrived in Baltimore on January 28,1901 on the Stuggart. This information came from a luggage tag. However there is no record of any ships arriving on that date. From anyones past research, was it common to be scheduled for one ship and switched to another?

We had someone search on microfilm and they could not find the ships arrival. In doing a microfilm check at the NARA we noticed that there were different microfilm rolls that are suppose to have arrivals for the same time periods. The service we contracted with only mentions looking at one of the referenced microfilm.
Does anyone know what the diffeence might be between the lists.

Are these records suppose to be fairly complete and accurate?

I noticed one of the microfilm descriptions mentions a federal list. Are there different lists depending on where the ship docked?

SInce the ship they were suppose to have arrived on belonged to the North German Lloyd line which must have had their own facilities, is it normal that there arrivals may not appear on the "so called" official arrival lists?