{"id":7370,"date":"2014-06-12T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2023-06-26T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:10:52","slug":"trace-your-immigrant-ancestors-with-newspaper-passenger-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/trace-your-immigrant-ancestors-with-newspaper-passenger-lists.html","title":{"rendered":"Trace Your Immigrant Ancestors with Newspaper Passenger Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be sure to check passenger lists that were routinely printed in newspapers\u2014they have critical genealogical information about your immigrant ancestors that you need for your family history research.<\/p>\n

Look at this typical example, published in the Irish Nation<\/em> newspaper in New York City.<\/p>\n

This passenger list reports on the\u00a0Irish passengers\u00a0who arrived in New York City on\u00a0board various\u00a0ships\u00a0recently\u00a0arrived from Europe. Look at the entry for Jane Williamson.<\/p>\n

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Irish Nation (New York City, New York), 7 January 1882, page 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This passenger list newspaper article tells us that Jane Williamson, from County Antrim, Ireland, arrived on 28 December 1881 on board the steamer England<\/em>. It also says that her ultimate destination in America was Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n

I looked at the original passenger list online, and found that it has no mention of the facts that Jane was from County Antrim or that she was heading to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

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  • For the entry \u201cPlace of Last Residence\u201d it was blank.<\/li>\n
  • For the entry \u201cProvince of Last Residence\u201d it read: \u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • For the entry \u201cCity or Village of Destination\u201d it read: \u201cUnited States.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    How did the Irish Nation<\/em> newspaper get more complete information about Jane Williamson for its newspaper article than was contained in the original passenger list?<\/p>\n

    Did they pay arriving Irish immigrants for self-reporting this information? Did they\u00a0devote\u00a0a lot of reporters\u2019 time to getting all the facts\u2014and do this for the hundreds and hundreds of Irish immigrants that arrived every day?<\/p>\n

    What a great resource for genealogists who are tracing their ancestral roots overseas!<\/p>\n

    The federal passenger lists contain part of the story\u2014to get the rest of the story, you need to turn to old newspapers.<\/p>\n

    It is essential to check the deep newspaper archives on GenealogyBank to get more of the details about your ancestors and their immigration to the United States.<\/p>\n

    Keep digging and discover the stories of your ancestors\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Be sure to check passenger lists that were routinely printed in newspapers\u2014they have critical genealogical information about your immigrant ancestors that you need for your family history research. Look at this typical example, published in the Irish Nation newspaper in New York City. This passenger list reports on the\u00a0Irish passengers\u00a0who arrived in New York City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[7190,1658,2233,12,465,2556,497,7186,7187,7185,2020,6991,27,4818,2717,7188,7189],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-county-antrim","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-genealogy","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-immigrants","tag-ireland","tag-irish-immigrants","tag-irish-passengers","tag-jane-williamson","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspaper-passenger-lists","tag-newspapers","tag-newspapers-for-genealogy","tag-passenger-lists","tag-passengers","tag-williamson"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92515,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/92515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}