I obtained all the manifest numbers for ship from mid 1868 to end of 1869. There are over 900 ships in the file Russians to America that arrived in that time frame. However, there are NO PASSENGERS in any of those manifest numbers. So it seems those passenger lists were lost, or else they have not been digitized to date. Can anyone confirm this or provide guidance? Thanks, Andrew "Andrew Cohen" <andyco50@verizon.net>

> I obtained all the manifest numbers for ship from mid 1868 to end of > 1869. There are over 900 ships in the file Russians to America that > arrived in that time frame. > > However, there are NO PASSENGERS in any of those manifest numbers. > So it seems those passenger lists were lost, or else they have not > been digitized to date. > > Can anyone confirm this or provide guidance? > > "Andrew Cohen" <andyco50@verizon.net> I am reliably informed that the "XXX to America" series includes only passengers aboard ships whose passenger list/manifest show 80% of more of the passengers from XXX. Put another way, Italians to America includes only passengers who were travelling with a ship full of other Italians. If your Russian was one of 5% of the passengers who were Russian, he MAY show up in Italians to America, but he won't be in Russians to America. Did you try the NARA site to identify the ship manifest for direct viewing? What about the LDS microfilms? Using search engines at Castle Garden and/or Ellis Island, see if you can spot the manifest or the ship name (always to remember that the SS Prince Edward morphed into the SS King Edward when the Prince himself did). I found my woman by defining the first record of her in the US, then reading ship-lists backward from then until I found her on one. It's not a lot of fun, but it is do-able. Cheryl singhals <singhals@erols.com>