On a German list, both topic and subject, the moderator posted this:
>From Dick Eastman's Newsletter
NARA Makes Some Passenger Arrival Records Available Online
This week, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
announced that it has made available for the first time online more
than 5.2 million records of some passengers who arrived during the
last half of the 19th century at the ****ts of Baltimore, Boston, New
Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The records can be accessed
through NARA's online Access to Archival Databases (AAD).
The records were transcribed from original ****p manifests into
electronic databases by Temple University's Center for Immigration
Research at The Balch Institute. The Center donated the digital
records to the National Archives. The records are known as Data
Files Relating to the Immigration of Germans to the United States,
1850-1897; Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Italians to
the United States, 1855-1900; and Data Files Relating to the
Immigration of Russians to the United States, 1834-1897. This series
consists of records of 527,394 passengers who arrived at the United
States between 1834 through 1897 and identified their country of
origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania,
Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine. There are records of
passengers who were U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens planning to
continue their travels, returning to the U.S., or staying in the
U.S. There are records of passengers arriving at the following
****ts: Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia;
the bulk of the records are for passengers arriving at the ****t of
New York. Each of the passenger records may include name, age, town
of last residence, destination, and codes for passenger's ***,
occupation, literacy, country of origin, transit and/or travel
compartment, and the identification number for the ****p manifest.
Information on each ****p is in the manifest header file and includes
the ****p manifest identification number, the name of the ****p, the
code for its ****t of departure, and date of arrival. The ****p
manifest identification number indicates the ****t of arrival.
The new databases may be found at
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/index.jsp
bob gillis
bob gillis <robertgillis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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