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As the people of the earth came to trust the then "new" idea that the earth was round and therefore navigable, travel over long distances became common. The lists generated by passenger-ships are a valuable resource for the professional or lay genealogy researcher.
As the family tree is being assembled or created, missing facts as well as elusive family ancestors become apparent. Filling those gaps in the family history report can be challenging. When all the usual resources have been explored and that creeping sense of discouragement is drawing closer, looking for traces of ancestors travel patterns can provide that missing connection for factual family tree information gathering. Passenger-ship logs list the names of the travelers, their companions, their ages and or birth-dates, the port they boarded the ship, their destination, and many other pertinent details.
Ship Passenger Lists
As the people of the earth came to trust the then "new" idea that the earth was round and therefore navigable, travel over long distances became common. The lists generated by passenger-ships are a valuable resource for the professional or lay genealogy researcher.
As the family tree is being assembled or created, missing facts as well as elusive family ancestors become apparent. Filling those gaps in the family history report can be challenging. When all the usual resources have been explored and that creeping sense of discouragement is drawing closer, looking for traces of ancestors travel patterns can provide that missing connection for factual family tree information gathering. Passenger-ship logs list the names of the travelers, their companions, their ages and or birth-dates, the port they boarded the ship, their destination, and many other pertinent details.