-----Original Message----- From: a.colthirst <adcolthirst@sprint.ca> To: GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com <GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Ship Passenger Lists available... >This is great info. I have one question: Is this info. online at NARA's web >page or must one research in person? > >-----Original Message----- >From: NColeman <ncroots@worldnet.att.net> >To: GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com <GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 11:46 AM >Subject: Ship Passenger Lists available... > > >>I should have looked at my dates more carefully. Here's a >>breakdown of what passenger manifests exist for the Port of >>New York: >> >>Series M1066 - Registers of Vessels Arriving at the Port of >>New York from Foreign Ports - 1789 - 1919. This is a >>sometimes chronological, sometimes alphabetical series that >>is helpful if you know the name of the ship and the >>approximate year. From this series you can make a list of >>arrivals of that particular ship and then go on to examine >>the manifests, if they have survived. >> >>Series M261 - Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving >>at New York 1820-1846. This is an alphabetical index, by >>passenger surname, for the period. >> >>Series M237 - Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New >>York 1820-1897. These are the actual ship lists, filmed in >>chronological (most of the time) order, by date of arrival. >> >>Series T519 - Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving >>at New York June 16, 1897 - June 30, 1902. Alphabetical >>Index of passengers by surname. >> >>Series T621 - This is a SOUNDEX index to Passenger Lists of >>Vessels Arriving at New York July 1 1902 - December 31, >>1943. Arranged in Soundex Code order and then by FIRST name >>of passenger. There are three possible types of index cards >>to be found in this series. See below*. >> >>Series T715 - These are actual ship passenger lists arranged >>in VOLUME order (and subsequently by date, but not >>always...<g>) 1897 - 1920. These "volume" numbers appear on >>the index cards in series T621. >> >>*The three types of index cards that exist in series T-621 >>can be confusing at first. Two types have an actual ship >>name and (usually) a date, pretty straightforward. The >>third type doesn't have either. It may look like this (I'm >>going to use Nara's own example here): >> >>E 430 Elliot, Charles E. 26m 12 53 4660 >> >>That's about all you'll get. What this translates to is >>that after the Soundex Code and the name, you have a 26 year >>old male, on line 12, page 53, of volume 4660. You then >>take this information to the list that accompanies series >>T715 and look up volume 4660. You will find out that volume >>4660 translates to a 1913 arrival and the actual volume (and >>therefore the ship list) will appear within reels >>#1999-2246. There is a further breakdown of this system >>available at NARA. >> >>Hope this is helpful... Best regards. Nancy. >> >> >>NColeman >>NYC/Long Island Family History Research Services >>http://www.genealogyPro.com/ncoleman.html >>http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/l/Nancy--Coleman/ >>ncroots@worldnet.att.net >>NYGenExchange: www.genexchange.com/NY/index.cfm >> >> >> >>==== GEN-NYS Mailing List ==== >>Have you considered joining the Rootsweb Genealogical Data >>Cooperative? >> http://www.rootsweb.com/ >> > > >==== GEN-NYS Mailing List ==== >Have you forgotten how to UNSUBSCRIBE? >Visit the GEN-NYS-L Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers!) web page: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/GEN-NYS-L/FAQ/GEN-NYS-L.txt >