That sounds very interesting. I'm intrigued...
Now that would be the best ever told about how a person got too drunk to make the passage on the Titanic. But it makes no sense because there were ships going from Rotterdam at the time, so I doubt that Dutch families would first sail to the UK and then take the Titanic to the US.
My father is from Amsterdam and he had an uncle and aunt who sailed to the US on the Holland - America line. They ended up in Canada and since a few years, I've been in touch with a few of the people on that side of the family. For me it was easy, because I don't have a very common surname. But everyone with the same surname is related :)
The last name Rasp is definitely Dutch, not German. It even sounds familiar, but that could be my brain trying too hard. It's a shame my father isn't alive, because he knew a lot of people in Amsterdam, as his cousin and best friend was quite the celebrity. Now that I think of it, I might write about it sometimes!
There's a website that might help you in your search:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/748241?availability=Family%20History%20Library
It has the passenger lists of all the sailings in that time. If you scroll down and look at: 'Passagiersregister' that should have the lists...
Did your father ever find out why he was adopted? I believe it happened a lot those days, simply because people went to the US with all these hopes and dreams that didn't quite happen the way they hoped and they then didn't have the money to support their families. Sad really. We're so lucky to live in this time, and we don't even realize it.
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