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From: RAY Montgomer <>
Subject: Re: [FOX-L] Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild passenger list
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:42:50 EST


Thanks for sharing this with us!!
RAY
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:04:35 EST writes:
>Received this on one of my other lists. The site is wonderful, even
>though
>not complete.
>
>******************************************************************************
>******************
>From: cahaba.shore <>
>To: <>
>Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 12:29 AM
>Subject: [WALLACE-L] Fw: Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild passenger
>list
>
>>> Dear Wallace cousins, I am one of the 500+ transcribers working on
>the
>passenger list for IGTS. Since November, 1998, 423 ships passenger
>lists
>have
>been posted to this site. New ships are being uploaded weekly. The
>homepage
>is
>located at http://istg.rootsweb.com The ships are indexed by time
>period,
>port of
>departure and arrival, and by surname; please use your scroll bar to
>view all
>the
>indexes. There are links from the surnames to each ship. As of
>Tuesday, there
>were
>some fifteen ships with Wallaces on the passenger list. The surnames
>are
>transcribed EXACTLY as they appear on the manifest...so be sure and
>check all
>those "creative" spellings we transcribers are dealing with from the
>original
>list.
>
>
>This is all being done by volunteers, so if you do find your folks on
>this
>site, please
>let us know...It helps at 3:00 AM when we are bleary-eyed and trying
>to
>decipher illegible handwriting from long, long ago!
>
>And do keep in mind that new ships are being added very often.
>Kitty Steele >>
>
>
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>and resources - go to <<http://www.rootsweb.com/>;
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>Happy Huntin'!
>
>

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