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From: Ruth Skewis <>
Subject: [CASANFRA] SHIP PASSENGER LISTS!!!
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 16:07:09 -0800


In reply to this post of mine earlier, I was asked by Dee Biegler, Spokan WA
if this web site included ships/passenger lists from East Coast of US to
West Coast of US. I told her I thought there were some but I then sent her
these two posts/sites to check out. Well..... she found her Washburn family
right away! She was just a little delighted<gggg> and suggested that the
rest of you might also want to see these sites - so here you go:

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Did you see this post from John Ireland [] posted to
NORCAL this January??

---Hi listers,
For years I tried to locate my relatives on ship passenger lists for those
coming to California. I finally found grandma and two children listed on
the SS Brother Jonathan which arrived in The City in 1853. Grandpa was
probably in steerage. #:-) Anyway, I also found a source for passenger
lists for those departing New York City bound for the Isthmus and California
(1851-1856). So far I have transcribed over 50 of the lists and posted them
for anyone who might be interested. My contribution to NORCAL for all of
the help and interesting information I have received from the list over the
past couple of years.

If you do a search remember to use variations in spellings for unusual
names. You might also try a given name search. Many times when I was able
to link passengers to the ship they boarded on the Pacific side, the name
spellings were different. I also checked in Rasmussen's volumes. Most of
these names are NOT in Rasmussen.

Hope you find someone you know.

http://www.pt5dome.com

More lists to come. Thanks for your help along the way.
JI
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and this from Mike O'Brian [] posted to CASASNFRA this
February??

-----You can find ships arriving in SF at http://www.maritimeheritage.org.
They have
an extensive list and are adding more all the time.

Mike
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Hope you find someone as Dee did......

Good Luck, RUTH
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Ruth(Grady) & Don Skewis


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruth Skewis [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 12:00 PM
> To: ;
> Subject: FW: [NJMIDDLE] Passenger list by arrival location
>
>
> Thought y'all would want to know about this!!
>
> RUTH
> ___________________
> Ruth(Grady) & Don Skewis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Mount [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 12:58 PM
> To:
> Subject: [NJMIDDLE] Passenger list by arrival location
>
>
> The Olive Tree Genealogy has recently organized its ships'
> passenger lists by Place of Arrival. This is in addition to the
> existing files organized in Chronological Order by Year of Arrival.
>
> This should assist researchers who are looking specifically for
> ships arriving in any U.S.A. locale!
>
> To search for ships arriving in various ports within U.S.A., please
> go directly to:
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/tousa.htm

Passenger Lists of ships to the U.S.A. begin in 1492 with
Columbus' voyage (Passenger lists of the Santa Maria, Nina and
Pinta are online) and end with the 1949 voyage of the Fortunato to
New York.

My first list for voyages to New Netherland is De Endracht in 1630,
and ends with De Trouw in 1664.

You can still search for ships passenger lists by year of sailing and
of course you can search for a specific surname of interest on The
Olive Tree Genealogy's *two* search engines at the Welcome Page


http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/

Please feel free to forward this message (exactly as written) to
others who might be interested.

Good luck in your hunt!

Lorine

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