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From: "John Hanson" <>
Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Looking List Deaths in Yorkshire in world war 1
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:41:02 +0100
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Elaine

Thank you for pointing out this wonderful resource. Projects like this
unfortunately never seem to hit the main headlines.

But I shall certainly add it to the lectures that I do on migration and
passenger lists.

Regards
John Hanson

-----Original Message-----
From: Elaine Fehr [mailto:]
Sent: 05 September 2008 00:01
To:
Cc: 'Elaine Pickard'; 'scarlet daisies';
Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Looking List Deaths in Yorkshire in world war 1

Hello John and others,
A small Family History Group in BC is taking on the task of indexing
Passenger Lists to Canada 1900-1921. On their site is another group linked
who are doing prior to 1900. A small beginning so far but kudos to them and
their project. I found my grandparents coming to Canada in 1908. see:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/nfhs then go to Ships Lists. Regards, Elaine in
BC Canada On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:03 AM, John Hanson wrote:

> The big problem with the Canadian archive is that the inbound
> passenger lists aren't indexed and the ships list is so hit and miss.
>
> It has less than 10,000 passenger lists from around the world and yet
> there were over 100,000 sailing from the UK between 1890 and 1930
> alone.
>
> The best source for people leaving the UK in the outbound passenger
> lists at TNA in BT27. These cover the period 1890-1960 and have now
> been indexed and are online at www.findmypast.com in the migration
> section
>
> Regards
> John Hanson


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