Many thanks for your offer Eunice. The time I am looking at was around 1905 and the route was Sardinia to the Port of La Rochelle in France, and then disembarking on the west coast of South America to travel by land to Bolivia. Ports they could have disembarked were Arica, Antofagasta, Mollendo, or Callao. Elisa La Placa married my Yorkshire grandfather there! I have had no success whatsoever with South America archival data -- never a response -- nor from Italian archives. So, any help you can offer would be of great value! Thanks again. Margie, Washington DC 09 Apr 2002 11:29:58 +1000 From: E & R Shanahan To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Anglo-Italian] LA PLACA Dear Marjie If you like to give a time frame I will look up another of my sources which is postal history reference - we are collectors of British postal history and have a lot of books with reference to the carriage of mail of course and I know that the ships were used for the mail, but the time I know about they would not have been shipping 'Lines' as such just any ship going as 'tramp' shipping i.e. taking cargo from any port to any other port, and many of the ships were owned by the Master - let me know if I can help in that way Eunice in Queensland At 06:02 8/04/02 -0700, you wrote: > > Does anyone know of the route Italians may have taken when migrating from Sardinia to the port of La Rochelle, France, where they continued on to Britain, USA and South America? Which shipping lines were there from there? >I have had a number of years seeking the information with no success. >Many thanks in anticipation to those who can assist me in my quest. >Margie Fawcett, Washington DC > --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax