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February, 1999
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Passenger Lists
Forwarded by GFS Carol
Submitted by garymartens@earthlink.net
Some ship and passenger arrival information web sites:
National Maritime Museum (England):
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
Public Record Office (England):
http://www.pro.gov.uk/
Web sites with Canadian Arrival passenger lists:
http://freespace.virgin.net/alan.tupman/sites/ships.htm
TheShipsList Searchable Archives Database
http://www.chignecto.net/TheShipsList
TheShipsList Digest's On-Line at:
http://www.cimorelli.com/ShipsList/digest
Tony Cimorelli's Searchable Database of Ship Arrivals
(Contains the complete Morton Allan Directory of Ship Arrivals)
http://www.cimorelli.com/vbclient/Shipmenu.htm
Lou Alfano's Database of Ship Description's and Histories
http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/ships.htm
Solem and Swiggum Database of Norwegian Ships
http://digidesk.jbi.hioslo.no/~emigrant/index.htm
National Archives and Records Administration - Genealogy Section
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/
Canadian Archives - Immigration Records
http://www.archives.ca/www/svcs/english/ImmigrationRecords.html
The National Archive of England, Wales and the United Kingdom (PRO)
http://www.open.gov.uk/pro/prohome.htm
Al Taupman's Passenger Lists
http://freespace.virgin.net/alan.tupman/sites/ships.htm
Downward Bound - Great Lakes Shipping
http://www.rootsweb.com/~migls/index.html
Randall Oulton's Ships Passenger Lists
http://www.oulton.com/website/cwa/wa-ships.nsf/by+material
DataMarine - UK's premier source for Maritime Databases!
http://www.beavis.co.uk/dm.htm
DataMarine - links
http://www.beavis.co.uk/dtalink.htm
1918 Influenza Epidemic
Forwarded by GFS Carol
Submitted by garymartens@earthlink.net
Many of us have ancestors that lost their lives as a result of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic that was brought back to Camp Funston at Ft. Riley, Kansas by soldiers returning from Europe after WW I. Here are three web sites that have information on that epidemic.
PBS documentary web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/influenza/
It All Started in Kansas, by David Brown
http://www.mcs.com/~mikei/tgws/rel002.htm
1918 Project, Univ. of Toronto:
http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/spanishflu/1918.html
German Web Site To See
Forwarded by GFS Carol
Submitted by RemMick@AOL.COM
This site is wonderful!!
German GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ewggerman/
URL Change for Ship Transcribers
Submitted by GFSAcadian@AOL.com
This is just to let you know that the URL for Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) has changed to http://www.immigrantships.net/
(Link Updated 6/17/04)
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