My request for help is for websites: there are plenty to search for US/Canadian/Italian migration, but little that I can find about people travelling to and from Buenos Aires during WWI and just after. I don't have names, unfortunately, but please don't give up on me yet, this is my reasoning: I've read a wonderful book about growing up in Patagonia (Mollie Robertson: The Sand, the Wind & the Sierras, Days in Patagonia, published 1964), and my project for the last 6 months has been to try to find out more about her. Robertson is her married name, she never wrote another book, and can't possibly be alive, unless she's well over 100. The book gives very few clues, except that her father was already working in Patagonia when she and her mother travelled alone by ship to Buenos Aires ("just when submarines were becoming a very real danger", she says) perhaps therefore in 1915? About 7 years later they returned also by ship, this time with father too. Among many other lines of research, one has been about finding passenger lists for ships around those two periods, so Ships List, Royal Mail Line, BiSA etc have all been really interesting - except that names of ships don't help unless I can find out when they travelled. The arrival passenger lists would be easier, I thought, because the departure ones (both ends) would contain loads of names of people who got off along the way. Is there such a thing? I believe ships to BA departed from London, Southampton or Liverpool. Or if I could find lists of ships departing the port of Buenos Aires in 1921 & 1922. They weren't immigrants, just passengers, which I know makes it more difficult. Have I set myself an impossible task? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Caroline Holder Bristol

on April 30, 2006 8:36 PM Caroline Holder wrote My request for help is for websites: there are plenty to search for US/Canadian/Italian migration, but little that I can find about people travelling to and from Buenos Aires during WWI and just after. I don't have names, unfortunately, but please don't give up on me yet, this is my reasoning: I've read a wonderful book about growing up in Patagonia (Mollie Robertson: The Sand, the Wind & the Sierras, Days in Patagonia, published 1964), and my project for the last 6 months has been to try to find out more about her. Robertson is her married name, she never wrote another book, and can't possibly be alive, unless she's well over 100. The book gives very few clues, except that her father was already working in Patagonia when she and her mother travelled alone by ship to Buenos Aires ("just when submarines were becoming a very real danger", she says) perhaps therefore in 1915? About 7 years later they returned also by ship, this time with father too. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Haven't seen any replies. I suggest that you post your interest on South-Am-Emi list where there is a strong and knowledgeable Argentine contingent. see http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/SOUTH-AM-EMI.html David Asprey