Jeannie, On a different list I received this reply to another person that relates to your question below. "I don't want to sound too negative but it is very challenging to find a ships passenger list to Canada in the time period you need. Passesnger lists did not have to be kept until 1865 so few survive. Hiring a professional IMO would be a huge waste of your money. There simply are very few surviving lists for this time period and those that have survived are obscure . One example of an alternate for later years 1847-1871 is the JJ Cooke Shipping Records which are now online. But that is too late for you However the good news is that there are MANY projects online that have ships lists and/or alternate lists, such as Sue Swiggum's lists of passages once an immigrant reached Lower Canada (Quebec). One good set Sue is working on is St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Passenger Records 1819- 1836 (links available at the URL below) You can read what is available online and use the links provided to get to these free resources. There are very few others available, offline or on. http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/canada/ then scroll DOWN to "Filling in the Gaps in Ships Passenger Lists to Canada Before 1865" I beleive the reply came from a person affiliated with the Olive Tree Genealogy site. ~Valerie --- JEANNIE FLYE <jflye@verizon.net> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Valerie Brown" <vwbrown08@yahoo.com> > To: <nydelawa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:11 PM > Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] For the Scots, why Delaware > County? > > > For my relations to give "Bovina" as their > destination > > on the 1851 ship's passenger list implies > intention. > > My ancestors came in the early 1800s and I have > not found any ship's > lists that includes them. Were there records then > that have been found and > transcribed? Is it always the case that a person's > exact destination would > be recorded? > > I also have ancestors who arrived in the late > 1800s/early 1900s and on > those passenger lists they were required to give > their last known address, > where they were going, who was "sponsoring" them and > how much money they > had. Was this also required back in the mid-1800s? > > Jeanne (Raitt Flye) > > > To contact list administrator send email to > nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121