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From: "David E. Zerga" <>
Subject: Re: Portm of Embarktion. 2nd TRY!!!
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 02:41:14 GMT


Shirl,

There are ships passenger lists for arrivals to US ports.

Here is some infromation for arrivals to the Port of New York.

1. 1820-1846 alphabetical index
2. 1847-June 15, 1897 unindexed
2. June 16, 1897-June 30, 1902 alphabetical index
4. July 1, 1902- 1948 Soundex index

Using the information from the index, you order the film containing your
Soundex code.

The same Soundex code will include several different surnames.

The Soundex indexes are filmed copies of 3x5 cards.

Your then crank the film through all the FIRST NAMES until you come to the
card you want. For example, the sequence of cards may look like this:

ZEREGA, Davide (44 years old)....
ZEREGA, Davide (17 years old)....
ZEREGA, Ilmo (46 years old)....
ZEREGA, Venanzio (3 years old)....

There will probably be more than one Davide Zerega. You would try to match
up your relative by the age of the person listed.

For arrivals prior to 1910 the 3X5 card will have the name, age and sex of
the passenger, country of citizenship, the name of the ship and shipping
line and the date of arrival.

You then order the film containing your date of arrival and scan through to
the passenger list for your ship.

If there is more than one person with the name and age of your relative, you
will need to order the film by each arrival date.

For arrivals after 1910 the 3X5 card would look like this:

CUNEO, Giovanni Battista 46m 2 13 3672

This means that Giovanni Battista was a 46 year old male and that his name
appears on
line 2 of page 13 of volume 3672 of passenger lists.

You then order the film containing volume 3672, crank to that volume, crank
to page 13 and look down the passenger list to line 3.

You can get the Soundex code for the immigrant's name and the numbers of the
films on which the code appears from the PIE Page

http://www.cimorelli.com/pie/piehome.htm


The NARA site has some excellent information and complete catalogs of ships
passenger lists for US Ports.

http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html

SBNichols wrote:

> Please, can someone answer my question? I am getting e-mails asking me
> to let them know if I get an answer to my inquiry.
> Question: Is there a place that the records of ancestors leaving the
> Port od Palermo are kept? I cannot imagine they just showed up one sunny
> day at the port and boarded a ship. Are there records and how can we
> obtain them?
> Any help out there? English or Italian!!!
> Thanks in advance for your kind replies!!
> Shirl
> --
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> Life is short, be swift to love, with haste be kind

--
Very truly yours,

David E. Zerga
SYSOP Genealogia Section,
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