Can anyone tell me if the passenger lists ofships that arrived in New York in April 1851 have been transcribed and are they available online on the web? According to family history and ancestor of my wife arrived in New York in April 1851! TIA RFS

On 25 May 2006 at 13:47, Richard F. Strait wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the passenger lists ofships that > arrived in New York in April 1851 have been transcribed and > are they available online on the web Yes. :-) You have several choices, some free, some not free. Not all the 1851 lists are online for free but all are online as a pay subscription. (Does that make sense?) So why not start with the free ones and if you come up empty, go to the pay sites Here's the free ones: Passenger lists are available on microfilm so if you know a date of arrival or a ship name you can order the microfilm or have NARA do a lookup for you. For a complete list of film numbers (NARA or FHC) for ships going to New York after 1820, see http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/filmnos_newyork.shtml Find your date (year, month, day if known) and write down the NARA or Family History Centre film number you need. The staff of the National Archives will undertake a search of the original records for a fee. You can order National Archives (NARA) forms online at http://www.archives.gov/global_pages/inquire_form.html You might also want to check the ongoing project to fill in the 1847-1892 index gap for passenger arrival records in New York. This project consists of 3 sets of records: 1. NY Times extracts for ship arrivals and passenger names 2. Images (and some accompanying transcripts) of actual passenger lists in this time period 3. NY Almshouse records for 1855-1858 The complete index of NY Times years and shipping news extracts is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/nytimes.htm You can also search the NY Times online for a small fee through other sites. There are links at the above URL. Images of ships passenger lists for these Unindexed NY years are online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ The Almshouse Records start at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ny_alms1855.htm Also check online ships and links to ships in this time period at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_ny182549.shtml Ancestry.com is the pay service that has all the ships for 1851. You can get a free trial by going to http://olivetreegenealogy.com/freegenealogy.shtml -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com

At 01:47 PM 2006-05-25 -0500, Richard F. Strait wrote: >Can anyone tell me if the passenger lists ofships that arrived in New >York in April 1851 have been transcribed and are they available online on >the web? According to family history and ancestor of my wife arrived in >New York in April 1851! > >TIA > >RFS Hi Richard, You have quite a bit of choice of research tools online actually. I suggest you use Steve Morse's search forms for pre-Castle Garden records on Ancestry.com . . .they have the actual scanned manifests available. Read about them here on Steve's website http://www.stevemorse.org/ Steve's search forms are wonderful . . . those which cost (to view the original images) are shown with a $ sign, but you can do a tremendous amount to narrow your search. There were 168 ship arrivals in the month of April 1851. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/