Re: Trade Ancestry Lookups?

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:36 +0000 (UTC), Dennis Ahern
<ahern@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Don Kirkman <donsgenes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>>
:>> My Ancestry subscription is US only, but I can search some other
:>> resources if necessary. Any takers with the time to give me a hand?
:>
:>Name: Jonathan Kirkman
:>Birth Date: abt 1868
:>Age: 50
:>Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
:>Arrival Date: 24 Nov 1918
:>Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
:>Ship Name: Adriatic
:>Shipping Line: White Star Line
:>Official Number: 124061

: Thanks, John--exactly what I wanted. You now have an open ticket to
: ride, at your convenience. What can/may I do for you in return?

You could have looked this up yourself in the Ancestry US database of
Passengers Arriving in UK Ports 1878-1960. I would look it up to confirm
the above information. I've been finding a lot of errors in this
database. You have to look carefully at the actual manifest image as
sometimes passengers got off or boarded at ports other than what comes up
in the search results page. For example, a ship leaves New York but picks
up passengers at Boston on its way to Liverpool but the person you are
looking for may have gotten off at Queenstown on the way. I've also found
several occasions where it brings up the wrong image entirely.

Similarly, the indexes incorrectly show arrivals at Tilbury, Essex as
"London", presumably failing to understand that "Port of London" is
umpteen miles of the Thames much of which is not in London.
.

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