[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ancestry's canadian passenger lists are online

[Dave Obee]

The lists are easy to find on www.ancestry.ca -- there is a link and a little ad as well, quite prominent on the main page. There is also an offer of 14 days for free.

Yes, some of the lists up to 1922 are on the LAC site, but they are not indexed. That is why this new site is so important.

I have found several of my people already, in most cases just repeating the finds I made years ago on microfilm. It is always good to do that, though, because you get a sense of comprehensiveness.

There are also some people I cannot find. Mainly people who did not speak English, so I will keep guessing at what the spelling might have been.

The LAC site has an index to 1925-35, but no images. That index is missing a few people -- including our own Nelson Itterman, who came through in those years and should have been there. He does show up on the Ancestry index, and you can click right through to his page.

There are other immigration sites for Canada, but nothing that matches what Ancestry has done.

Anyone who wants to see what else there is should go to one of my sites, www.cangenealogy.com, and click on immigration. 

Dave Obee

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Warner <gary at warnerengineering.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 14:27
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ancestry's canadian passenger lists are online
To: Nelson Itterman <colnels at telus.net>
Cc: 'ger-poland-volhynia' <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>, 'Dave Obee' <daveobee at shaw.ca>

> Nelson,
> 
> The link on Ancestry.com is there, but it is not easy to 
> find.   It is 
> listed in the scrolling box on the page
> 
> http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=40
> 
> under Canadian Passenger Lists- New
> 
> It is either still an incomplete listing, or the family stories 
> about 
> both of my grand parents arriving in Canada on two different 
> ships in 
> the 1890s is not correct.   I am usually good at 
> finding needles in 
> haystacks, but no luck using all of the search tricks I know.
> 
> Gary Warner
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Nelson Itterman wrote:
> > Has this list been realised?
> > Nelson
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org
> > [mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On 
> Behalf Of Dave
> > Obee
> > Sent: September-16-08 4:55 PM
> > To: ger-poland-volhynia
> > Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ancestry's canadian passenger 
> lists are
> > online
> >
> >
> > The lists cover 1865-1935! Indexed! Linked to images!
> >
> > This is the biggest news for Canadian genealogists in a long time.
> >
> > Dave Obee
> >
> >
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