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/ >