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| Search by passenger name, departure port and destination port.
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| Retrieving records and identifying families |
| When you search on a passenger's name, you will firstly retrieve only the records containing that name, with the sailing details (departure date, ship name, departure and destination port). You may then select to download the complete passenger list for that sailing by clicking the Details button. This allows you to identify possible family groups.
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| Missing fathers |
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You may often find family groups where the father appears to be missing. This may well be because he had sailed earlier.
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| Marital status |
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The entries showing marital status are not to be consistently relied upon. There are many obvious examples of parents being described as single. A peculiarity of the BT27 passenger lists is that the column showing occupation will employ the term "wife" sometimes to indicate that the passenger was married to the preceding passenger but often to mean simply that the person was a married person.
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| Spelling of names |
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The spelling of names could vary from list to list and indeed from line to line. We find the name "Ellen" written frequently as "Ellin". "Hana" appears to have been used as a contraction both of "Hannah" and "Hanoria". In most cases, our NameX name variant database will ensure that such variants are still found when you search. The standard of literacy both of each ship's purser (who was responsible for the list) and of his passengers was probably not of the highest and there must have been many corruptions which occurred between the communication of names and their entry on the manifest. One of the clearest examples occurs in the passenger list of the Aurania in May 1890 where Mary Tevaney, aged 18, appears on the line above her presumed brother Patrick Devaney, aged 24; Francis Cohane, a smith travelling by the Wyoming in June 1890, was clearly of the same family as the Kohanes accompanying him to New York. The same manifest betrays many examples of slipshod work with large numbers of consecutive passengers allegedly of the same age, and much cramped and scribbled writing. |
| NameX |
| NameX is a proprietary name-matching tool which allows you to find family records for names which have common variations in spelling or which may have been spelled incorrectly on some records. Click here for more help. |
| See also: | About Passenger Lists |
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