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From: "Barbara A. H. Nuehring" <>
Subject: Important Dates for US Passenger Lists
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:45:10 -0400

Greetings All,

This interesting item was in the NEHGS eNews No. 278 of July 5, 2006.
Thought many of you would be interested in this "cheat sheet" of
passenger lists dates.


*Research Recommendations*
/Important Dates for US Passenger Lists
/by Michael J. Leclerc
1800-1819 Beginning of US Passenger Lists with keeping of Baggage Lists
(mostly Philadelphia).
1820-ca 1900 Customs Passenger Lists start being kept.
1882 Administrative control of immigration placed under the Secretary
of the Treasury.
1893 First major changes to 1819 law. Information on passenger lists
was now to include: Name, Age, Sex, Marital Status, Calling or
Occupation, Ability to Read or Write, Nationality, Last Residence, Port
of US Entry, Final Destination, Whether Possessing a Ticket to Final
Destination, Whether Immigrant Paid Own Passage, Whether in Possession
of Money, Whether Upwards of $30 or How Much if Less Than $30, Whether
Going to Join a Relative and if so What Relative as well as Their Name
and Address, Whether Immigrant had Ever Been in US Before and if so When
and Where, Whether Ever in Prison, Almshouse, or on Charity, Whether a
Polygamist, Whether Under Contract to Perform Labor in US, and Mental
and Physical Health Status
1903 Category of Race added.
1906 Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization established. Manifests
were now to carry a personal description of each immigrant and their
birthplace, not just country of allegiance.
1907 Name and address of the nearest relative in the country from which
the immigrant came.



Regards from the Roots Hunter,
Barbara
For a genealogist, hunting season is all year long.
Hunting for: HENKE, BUSCHLE, SCHOBER, GEIGER

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