Is your ancestor’s ship mentioned in the newspaper on the day it arrived? The Weser landed in New York in November of 1873. It’s arrival is mentioned in a Philadelphia newspaper on 3 November. My ancestor Focke Goldenstein was on the boat.
Names of passengers rarely are mentioned, but you may be fortunate enough to get a weather report.
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Yesterday I was searching for a particular name on newspapers.com. One of the hits was a list of passengers arriving in San Francisco by rail. So now I have a confirmed date in 1875 for the migration of these folks from Boston to SF. Newspapers are a wonderful resource.
This is a Philadelphia newspaper but with a New York arrival listed. There are also ships mentioned here at Lewes, Halifax, and Savannah!
Newspapers in port cities copied newspapers from other port cities. I have found that sometimes ship names, captains’ names, etc., get garbled in the port city in different papers, sometimes from two different reporters attempting to read handwritten manifests (Captain Frillot for Jullot).
That’s a good reminder about newspapers copying items from other locations.
My Illinois research centers around Plano….no, not Plano Texas but Plano, Illinois. It’s a relatively small farm town WSW of Chicago. Chicago had a busy little paper called the “InterOcean”. And Plano, irregularly, had news in the InterOcean. Often it included something to the effect of
“By special wire from the correspondent there.” The news reflects life in our small town, which someone took the trouble to wire to them. I’ve found all sorts of interesting stories about events that happened in Plano, and usually with a unique perspective as the special correspondent did not write for the Plano paper. I stumbled upon this source by accident…and now I try to look over any possible
source that might do the same.