[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help searching ship manifests

[Jack Leigh]

I'd like to support Dave's suggestion about waiting for more records to be
made available through ancestorsonboard.com.  They should be available to
1960 soon.  These are indexed lists of outbound passengers from England to
wherever, and will only be useful if your ancestor travelled indirectly to
his destination -- from the Continent to England and on from there.  On the
bright side, this was a very common and well organized way of travelling.

I have already had great success with ancestorsonboard.

Like Jerry, many years ago I searched all of the 1890's Canadian arrivals
ships' manifests sitting at a microfilm reader for hours.  I was looking
for my wife's 16 year old (future) grandfather Philipp SCHINDEL from
Volhynia (born 1877 so should have arrived in 1893 if the family story was
correct) and didn't find him.  A week or so ago it took me about 15 minutes
to find him, in 1893 as expected, at ancestorsonboard.com.  While the
outbound records don't give very much information about indirect
passengers, they do give the name of the ship and the date of sailing so I
can now go back to the Canadian arrivals manifest and (hopefully) find what
I missed before.

                                  ................ Jack
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----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Cooper <bdaelick at hotmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:49 am
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help searching ship manifests

> Hello all!
> 
> As I sit here scrolling through ships manifests on the Canada 
> archives site I wonder if someone might be able to offer me some 
> advice for narrowing down my search?  I have deduced that the 
> family I am looking for arrived in 1901 but that still leaves lots 
> and lots of ships to look through if don't know which port they 
> arrived at.  I also wonder just how badly the manifests can be 
> wrong?  I have come across family groups that include some of the 
> right names and close ages but then something in there will be way 
> off.  Like a married woman listed with what would be her maiden 
> name under the correct parents names but without her husband or 
> her children (I hope that makes sense).  Any guidance would be 
> appreciated or going through all these lists will take forever. 
> 
> Barbara Cooper