Comments on: A New Look at Immigrant Passenger Manifests http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/ Documenting the Search for My Family History Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:13:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Martha Y. http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-139689 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:40:26 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-139689 On ship manifests for New York,(1891 in particular), there in the 8th column is "Date and Cause of death" for persons who apparently died at sea. There are numbers instead of actual dates and words for date and cause. Does any one know where documentation for these numbers/ codes are located? Is there on line access to these codes/ Does any one know how bodies were cared for after death until arrival? On ship manifests for New York,(1891 in particular), there in the 8th column is “Date and Cause of death” for persons who apparently died at sea. There are numbers instead of actual dates and words for date and cause.
Does any one know where documentation for these numbers/ codes are located? Is there on line access to these codes/
Does any one know how bodies were cared for after death until arrival?

]]> by: Cathy http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-115846 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:24:37 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-115846 See Marian Smith's articles entitled "A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations" which can be found at the following web address: http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/manifests/ See Marian Smith’s articles entitled

“A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations”

which can be found at the following web address:
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/manifests/

]]> by: John http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-86360 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:58:11 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-86360 Can anyone tell me what the letters S S in the left column beside the name mean. Can anyone tell me what the letters S S in the left column beside the name mean.

]]> by: Martha Y. http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-85807 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:11:57 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-85807 What do the initials L.P.C. mean on a manifest "Boarder crossing from Canada"? (Stamped next to name.) What do the initials L.P.C. mean on a manifest “Boarder crossing from Canada”?
(Stamped next to name.)

]]> by: Angela Chiavetta http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-71273 Mon, 19 May 2008 23:27:24 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-71273 Can you tell me if the names of the deceased immigrants are listed in the book "Forgotten Ellis Island"? I am searching for my g-grandmother who arrived at Ellis Island in 1897. She is listed on the ship's manifest with her 4 young sons. I cannot locate her. Although, her husband re-married 1 year later. Thanks Angela Can you tell me if the names of the deceased immigrants are listed in the book “Forgotten Ellis Island”?

I am searching for my g-grandmother who arrived at Ellis Island in 1897. She is listed on the ship’s manifest with her 4 young sons. I cannot locate her. Although, her husband re-married 1 year later.

Thanks
Angela

]]> by: Dawn Bishop http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-50355 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:41:08 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-50355 Thank you for the well presented education on Detention records. I could not locate a thorough explanation before reaching your site. I have two questions I hope you can help me with. My great grandfather has a notation on his manifest clearly marked next to his name I-29182. He is only one of 2 individuals with an annotation on this page. Any idea as to what it may represent? Second question relates to the Detention list. I found my great, great grandmother on this list for the Grosser Kurfurst, along with her daughter (as an unnamed dependent). Does this mean no further information with be available on either of the two in this ship's particular manifest or is it worth going through the entire manifest? Thank you! Thank you for the well presented education on Detention records. I could not locate a thorough explanation before reaching your site. I have two questions I hope you can help me with.
My great grandfather has a notation on his manifest clearly marked next to his name I-29182. He is only one of 2 individuals with an annotation on this page. Any idea as to what it may represent?
Second question relates to the Detention list. I found my great, great grandmother on this list for the Grosser Kurfurst, along with her daughter (as an unnamed dependent). Does this mean no further information with be available on either of the two in this ship’s particular manifest or is it worth going through the entire manifest?
Thank you!

]]> by: lorie conway http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-47367 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:59:50 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-47367 Hi Steve- Thanks for mentioning Forgotten Ellis Island -- the first film and book to be produced about the abandoned immigrant hospital. On and off since 1998 when I first read about the "Other Ellis Island," I have been researching original records about the immigrant patients and medical staff which associated with the hospital. In terms of burial on Ellis Island, since the two islands where the 22 hospital buildings stood were built from land-fill (excavated during the creation of New York's subway system), no one was allowed to be buried on Ellis Island. Rather, the immigrants were taken by hearse (often paid for by immigrant aid societies or the Red Cross since many of the immigrants who died were penniless) to paupers graves on Hart Island or to Mt. Olivet in Queens. Other cemeteries that accepted the immigrants who died are located in Brooklyn and Staten Island. We filmed some of the unmarked immigrant graves at Mt. Olivet Cemetary. Hi Steve-

Thanks for mentioning Forgotten Ellis Island — the first film and book to be produced about the abandoned immigrant hospital. On and off since 1998 when I first read about the “Other Ellis Island,” I have been researching original records about the immigrant patients and medical staff which associated with the hospital. In terms of burial on Ellis Island, since the two islands where the 22 hospital buildings stood were built from land-fill (excavated during the creation of New York’s subway system), no one was allowed to be buried on Ellis Island. Rather, the immigrants were taken by hearse (often paid for by immigrant aid societies or the Red Cross since many of the immigrants who died were penniless) to paupers graves on Hart Island or to Mt. Olivet in Queens. Other cemeteries that accepted the immigrants who died are located in Brooklyn and Staten Island. We filmed some of the unmarked immigrant graves at Mt. Olivet Cemetary.

]]> by: Administrator http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-40262 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:04:58 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-40262 Hi Josie, I am not aware of any cemetery on Ellis Island. The website <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/cemetery.htm">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/cemetery.htm</a> documents the place of burial of more than 400 people who died in quarantine on Ellis Island in 1910-1911. All places of burial are near Ellis Island. None appear to be on Ellis Island itself. You can also check out the book "Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital" by Lorie Conway <a href="http://www.forgottenellisisland.com/FEI.swf ">http://www.forgottenellisisland.com/FEI.swf </a>. There may be more information there. You may also want to look into the book "The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to NYC Cemeteries" by Carolee Insskeep (see <a href="http://store.ancestry.com/index.aspx?p=1630">http://store.ancestry.com/index.aspx?p=1630</a>). Steve Hi Josie,

I am not aware of any cemetery on Ellis Island. The website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/cemetery.htm documents the place of burial of more than 400 people who died in quarantine on Ellis Island in 1910-1911. All places of burial are near Ellis Island. None appear to be on Ellis Island itself.

You can also check out the book “Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America’s Immigrant Hospital” by Lorie Conway http://www.forgottenellisisland.com/FEI.swf . There may be more information there.

You may also want to look into the book “The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to NYC Cemeteries” by Carolee Insskeep (see http://store.ancestry.com/index.aspx?p=1630).

Steve

]]> by: Josie Mesi Daly http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-37693 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:30:23 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-37693 I have a letter from one of my relatives that grandson was buried on Ellis Island as he got sick on board the ship and died before he could leave the island. Is this possible? Did they have a burial site on the Island? I have a letter from one of my relatives that grandson was buried on Ellis Island as he got sick on board the ship and died before he could leave the island. Is this possible? Did they have a burial site on the Island?

]]> by: Tim Agazio http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-37129 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:38:20 +0000 http://stephendanko.com/blog/2006/06/09/a-new-look-at-immigrant-passenger-manifests/#comment-37129 Steve, This is a great article! My grandmother had an S.I. on her line of the manifest and, until now, I never knew what it was. I've been meaning to do some research on this but never got around to it. Some of my other family members who immigrated also has annotations on their manifest line that I can now check out. Thanks again. Tim Agazio Steve, This is a great article! My grandmother had an S.I. on her line of the manifest and, until now, I never knew what it was. I’ve been meaning to do some research on this but never got around to it. Some of my other family members who immigrated also has annotations on their manifest line that I can now check out. Thanks again.

Tim Agazio

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