tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044799906733098528.post8195600927168334012..comments2024-03-15T07:03:44.157-04:00Comments on Ask Olive Tree Genealogy a Question: Ships Passenger Lists - How Many Per Voyage?Olive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044799906733098528.post-14284174746464122752010-10-19T18:43:02.181-04:002010-10-19T18:43:02.181-04:00This is not correct.
In some cases, there was a s...This is not correct.<br /><br />In some cases, there was a separate list retained in the departure country, often in a different language.<br /><br />For example, for ships going from Hamburg, Germany, to New York City, USA, from 1855-1934, ancestry.com has each passenger on three lists: <br /><br />"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957" has the "manifest", written in English to be given to the U.S. immigration authorities (at Ellis Island or wherever) <br /><br />"Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850-1934" has the lists that were written in German and kept in Germany.<br /><br />"Handwritten Indexes, 1855-1934." has a handwritten index, also written in German and kept in Germany.<br /><br />If you want to get really technical about this, I guess we could say that the lists that were kept in Germany do not meet the legal definition of a "manifest" and only the lists brought onboard the ship were manifests. But I think the question was about passenger lists in generally, not just ones meeting the technical definition of a manifest.Stephen Weinsteinnoreply@blogger.com