{"id":7795,"date":"2018-01-07T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2018-01-07T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T17:19:57","slug":"it-isnt-only-immigrants-who-appear-on-manifests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/07\/it-isnt-only-immigrants-who-appear-on-manifests\/","title":{"rendered":"It Isn&#8217;t Only Immigrants Who Appear on Manifests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7796\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ship-travellers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ship-travellers.jpg 659w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ship-travellers-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ship-travellers-624x473.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/>Immigrants looking to settle in the United States were not the only ones to cross the ocean on a ship and appear on a manifest. Depending upon the time period, passengers could also be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>merchants and other businessmen<\/li>\n<li>soldiers returning to the United States<\/li>\n<li>native citizens returning from a trip abroad<\/li>\n<li>immigrants returning to the US from a return trip to their homeland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I even found a manifest entry for a cousin who was a Red Cross nurse in Europe during World War I. If a passenger list entry is recent enough (generally late 19th century or later), it may give significant details about the passenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants looking to settle in the United States were not the only ones to cross the ocean on a ship and appear on a manifest. Depending upon the time period, passengers could also be: merchants and other businessmen soldiers returning to the United States native citizens returning from a trip abroad immigrants returning to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}