Passenger Manifests And the Immigrant Voyage

Phyllis Kramer, VP, Education www.jewishgen.org/education

This lecture on June 22, 2015 addressed many of the questions associated with this voyage, including how did the immigrants get the ticket, get to the port, what hardships did they endure, what was the voyage like, what ports, what immigration laws affected them, what documents did they come with, how do we find and understand manifests, their handwriting and notations.

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