Free on Ancestry until 30th Nov- passenger lists

mitchell · Post by **mitchell** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:30 am

Just found out from another forum that ancestry.co.uk are giving free access to passenger lists until 30th November... Ellis Island and other parts of America.
I've found my family who emigrated in 1868...I had the info on them already but hadn't actually seen the list.

Elaine

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:46 am

Any clues on how to access these at ancestry.co.uk greatly appreciated.

I had a look y'day evening, and couldn't for the life of me see how to access these particular records...........

David

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:03 pm

Hi David,

If you go to the homepage and click on immigration records, then do a search, it will allow access to the records available.

Nina

mitchell · Post by **mitchell** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:50 pm

Sorry, should have posted the link...the easiest way to get it is on the ancestry.com page.

When you type in http://www.ancestry.com/ it comes straight on

Elaine

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:24 pm

mitchell wrote:Sorry, should have posted the link...the easiest way to get it is on the ancestry.com page.

When you type in http://www.ancestry.com/ it comes straight on

Elaine

No

required at all, - all the PR stuff that I saw yesterday referred folk to ancestry.co.uk not ancestry.com , - I thought about trying the latter but wanted to get back last night to Ian Rankin's latest "Rebus" novel

As I'd begun to suspect it's the passenger lists at the US end, not anything that was left by departing ships in the UK, - at least one article that I read y'day gave the distinct impression that it was the former, and, forbye, in a Scottish context "Glasgow" passenger lists, which I, and I'm sure many read as passenger list info in Glasgow, as opposed to passenger lists in the USA showing port of origin as Glasgow, - bit of a difference !!

I'm unclear about what more Ancestry can offer for New York than is already freely available at the Ellis Island site - http://www.ellisisland.org/ , - see also a recent post here about Stephen Morse's various sites that offer better, more sophisticated search possibilites than the Ellis Island site itself. (Actually that's probably unfair, - I don't think that the Ellis Island site has info from the previous Castle Garden site, used before the opening of Ellis Island.)

I'd have to do some digging, but I suspect that some at least of the Boston, Philadelphia, SF, N Orleans, and Baltimore info is also available eleswhere.

David

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:43 pm

I think the New York records go a bit later at Ancestry, as I found my people on ships in 1927, but cannot find them at Ellis Island site.

Having said that, I thought I would have another look around today, but I can't seem to search...I keep getting a little box up saying that the page contains no data!

Nina

SuMacd · Post by **SuMacd** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:16 am

I accessed these records yesterday morning without any problem from Ancestry.co.uk.
Records are for both earlier and later than Ellis Island website.
Would be pleased if you could let me know how to access Boston lists by other means.
Having spent last weekend accessing free Ancestry some of these records were not availble at that time.
Susan

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:36 am

SuMacd wrote:I accessed these records yesterday morning without any problem from Ancestry.co.uk.
Records are for both earlier and later than Ellis Island website.
Would be pleased if you could let me know how to access Boston lists by other means.
Having spent last weekend accessing free Ancestry some of these records were not availble at that time.
Susan

Susan

Navigation hints to these records from the homepage at http://www.ancestry.co.uk appreciated..............

David

SuMacd · Post by **SuMacd** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:56 pm

David
No problem!
From Ancestry.co.uk select Search from Bar at Top of page then Immigration/Emigration from Box down right-hand side of page. This brings up the Search Immigration Records Page with the Passenger lists included shown at the side.
Hope this helps
Susan

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:38 pm

SuMacd wrote:David
No problem!
From Ancestry.co.uk select Search from Bar at Top of page then Immigration/Emigration from Box down right-hand side of page. This brings up the Search Immigration Records Page with the Passenger lists included shown at the side.
Hope this helps
Susan

Susan

Thanks for that !!

Maybe due to massive demands on the site following all the newspaper coverage, but that table on the right wasn't appearing at all when I tried previously clicking on the "Search" tab ..........

David