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From: "Zanne" <>
Subject: Re: [GV] National Archives microfilms
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:56:55 -0500
References: <20050106002719.81867.qmail@web50703.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.LNX.4.61b.0501051653340.8840@cicero02.myuw.net> <Pine.LNX.4.61b.0501061721330.15389@cicero03.myuw.net>


Yes. Microfilm is sorted by last name.
----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Zitzer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:29 PM
Subject: [GV] National Archives microfilms


>
> I know the port and date of arrival of my grandmother and her
> sister-in-law. I want to get a copy of the passenger list but
> I am befuddled by what I find on the NARA web pages. Their
> ship arrived Oct 29, 1912 in Philadelphia. This web page
>
>
http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm_catalogs/immigrant/microfilm_
61_rolls_t526.html
>
> appears to list microfilms by last name of passenger (using Soundex).
> My grandmother and her sister-in-law had different last names. From
> what I can tell, one of them is on roll #6 and the other is on roll
> #22.
>
> They came together and are on the same passenger list. Why would
> they be on different rolls of microfilm?
>
> Has anybody tried to understand the NARA system above?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sally Zitzer
> Seattle
>

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