"I am seeking passenger info for the New World, Liverpool - New York, Oct-Dec, 1853." I am also researching ships carrying Irish passengers in 1853 and '54. I think you have three ways to go: 1. Request a lookup on the NARA microfilm of the ship manifest, available in Washington, D.C., NYC, and Pittsfield MA. If no one steps forward to do this in the next week, I can put it on my list to do, when I am next at the Pitts- field branch. 2. Request a lookup in the Irish Ancestor, which is in various collections around the country, including the New England Historical Society in Boston. I have the name of a person who works near there and has offered to do a lookup for me. My goal is to actually get there this summer and do my own research. Also, you can use the online order form to obtain a photocopy of the article from the Allen County Public Library, which publishes PERSI (an index to all such publications) in Indiana. 3. You can request further information on the ship and on a particular passenger from the SHIPS-L mailing list, on which there are people with access to such info and who regularly do lookups. Good luck. I am assuming that you have already checked the volunteer transcribers site, which does have a few ship lists for '53 (the name New World rings a bell, so it may be there). I agree, that these ships in the early '50s are very elusive. I am re- searching whether one of them tried to dock at NYC or Philadelphia and was diverted to a Canadian port, due to cholera onboard. That's the family story, and it would explain why my ggrandfather was born in Mon- treal in 1855 but the family persevered in reaching Philly in 1866, minus two family members left buried up there. Sharon Carberry Connecticut