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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild and The Ships List
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:20:18 -0700

If you'd like the entire article re ship Sites, just let me know and I'll
send it to you. Sally


The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG)
"The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild," http://www.immigrantships.net/, is
a volunteer organization that was established in 1998. They have transcribed
more than 5,000 ships' passenger lists, citing over a half-million passenger
arrivals. The transcriptions range from the 1600s to the 1900s and can be
browsed and searched by ship's name, port of departure, port of arrival,
captain's name, and surname.


The Ships List
TheShipsList, http://www.theshipslist.com/, provides a tremendous amount of
information concerning emigrants and passenger lists for specific ships and
ports. More important, however, are the Fleet Lists, http://www.theshipslist
com/ships/lines/index.htm. If your research leads you to the name of the
shipping line that owned and/or operated a ship on which your ancestor
immigrated, this resource helps you learn more about the company, its
history, its disposition, and sometimes even where the company's records
ended up. For example, the Hamburg-America Line's webpage provides a brief
history, a list of its routes, description of ships' funnel colors,
abbreviations used in a variety of shipping documents, and an alphabetical
list of every ship in the line, when it was built, years in service and
disposition, and tonnage. This is great reference material!


Sally Rolls Pavia
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