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Immigration and ships logs for the UK
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Bruce | Report | 8 Feb 2007 15:37 |
Hiya, new to this family tree search thing, how do I find immigration records and ships logs that they came in on. Would be around the last half of the 1800? |
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Sam | Report | 8 Feb 2007 15:46 |
Came from where? Sam x |
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Bruce | Report | 8 Feb 2007 16:27 |
HI Sam Unknown at this stage but most likley Eastrn Europe, Germany / Poland. Was hoping that the UK maintyained a registry of immigration that I could do as name search on etc.. |
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Georgina | Report | 8 Feb 2007 16:30 |
Bruce have you found your relatives on any census? If you have can you post the details as reference? If you havn't found them can you give us some names & dates. Georgina. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 8 Feb 2007 17:00 |
Highly unlikely there are any . they would just have booked tickets and came over as foot passengers. My grt Grandparents came from Germany between 1880 & 1889 but i not been able to find any records .I looked at Kew for them and was told nothing held. You may like to search to see if they took naturalization Shirley |
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Paul Barton, Special Agent | Report | 9 Feb 2007 06:42 |
In fact Kew do hold records, but only for a brief period around the 1850's when captains of ships were requred to give the names of any foreign nationals arriving in British ports. I have examined them myself. They are in boxes of about 1,000 sheets with the entries hand-written, so of course many are illegible. Each box represents three months and are arranged by date, so if you're looking for a name without a date you have a lengthy job. |