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From: "fritzh31" <>
Subject: Re: [IOWA] Ships List
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:02:56 -0600
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I doubt if there is such a list. You might try and find a book entitled
"Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore 1820-1834; From Customs
Passenger Lists" by Michael Tepper. I've never looked at it, but it sounds
interesting and I am a big fan of Tepper for some of his other works.

Or you might want to check for *microfilms* of Baltimore arriving passenger
lists. Such lists are part of the National Archives, and microfilm copies
of them are available at some National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA) facilities and through Mormon Church Family History Centers (FHC) and
maybe through your nearest public library having an active genealogical
section and its inter-library loan desk. As a non-Mormon, I use both my
local FHC and my local public library as sources for such microfilms.

Baltimore arrivals on microfilm are in NARA Record Group M255 and M596.
M255 is indexed by passenger name in Record Group M327; M596 is indexed in
M334. All of them are fragmentary to one degree or another.

But some of the missing ones can be found in a separate group of passenger
lists (the so called "City Lists") maintained by the city of Baltimore (as
contrasted to the NARA lists, which were archived by the Federal government)
from September 1833 to October 1866. The "City Lists" are name indexed in
NARA record group M326, becuase they do such a good job of supplementing the
NARA passenger lists with all the missing gaps of the latter.

Fritz



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