Passengers on the Alexander
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Perhaps because passenger lists areAlexander, which brought 214 Highlandso rare, the search for them continuesto tantalize genealogists. The painfultruth is that no lists were ever createdfor most shipments of emigrants fromBritain to Canada.* Even where lists doexist, they tend to be uninformative, offeringscant help for the researcher tryingto match names from the list withancestors.Passenger lists, then, should not betaken as an end in themselves, but thereis often a fascinating story wrappedaround each extant list. In the case of the
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- Title
- Passengers on the Alexander
- Creator
- Lawson, James P.
- Subject
- Island Magazine, Prince Edward Island Museum
- Description
- Perhaps because passenger lists areAlexander, which brought 214 Highlandso rare, the search for them continuesto tantalize genealogists. The painfultruth is that no lists were ever createdfor most shipments of emigrants fromBritain to Canada.* Even where lists doexist, they tend to be uninformative, offeringscant help for the researcher tryingto match names from the list withancestors.Passenger lists, then, should not betaken as an end in themselves, but thereis often a fascinating story wrappedaround each extant list. In the case of the
- Publisher
- Prince Edward Island Museum
- Contributor
- Date
- 1991
- Type
- Document
- Format
- application/pdf
- Identifier
- vre:islemag-batch2-389
- Source
- 29
- Language
- en_US
- Relation
- Coverage
- Rights
- Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.