Posts in July 20, 2016

Years ago, I discovered my ancestors on an 1853 passenger list. I didn’t read any other names. Later I did. It turned out that there were other relatives on the manifest. The family immediately after the ancestral family was the niece of the father and her family. Twenty entries before the ancestral family was the married daughter and her small child. Read the entire passenger manifest. Think about the names. There may be more there than you think. People like to travel with others they know when they can.