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Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery by Lorine McGinnis Schulze Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and and Amazon.ca
Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery
by Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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Filling in the Gaps in Ships Passenger Lists to Canada
Before 1865 Ships Passenger lists on Ships Sailing to Ports in Canada did not have to be archived. It is a challenging time period to find passenger lists! But there ARE alternate records - shipping agent records, emigration agent ledger books, newspaper extracts are only a few
NEW
Irish Canadian Emigration Records, 1823-1849 available on Ancestry and Ancestry.ca This database contains various records and reports of Canadian emigration agents James Allison and A.J. Buchanan. Among the various records are some emigration and orphan lists. These lists are searchable by name. The two collections in this database are: Neilson collection [Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal, 1823-1845 Vol. 21 and 1846-1849 Vol. 22] & Emigration Agent Returns of Emigrant Orphans, 1847 [$]
There are no comprehensive ships passenger lists of immigrants arriving in
Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies
were not required by the government to keep their passenger
manifests.
Now available:
Filling in the Gaps: Finding Pre-1865 Ships Passenger Lists to Canada (84 pages) by Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Search Tip - English or Irish ancestors to Canada might be found in U.K. Directories, 1680-1830, Irish Flax Growers List, 1796 or Irish Records Index, 1500-1920
Olive Tree Genealogy has several ongoing Immigration Projects to find or reconstruct Canadian Ships Passenger Lists before 1865. They are the J J Cooke Shipping Records 1847 to 1871 with its lists of Irish passengers and New York Almshouse Records 1818-1855 with its lists of ships and passengers arriving in Canadian ports.
A very exciting NEW project as of October 2011 is the Poor Law Union Immigration from England to Canada. These are names of impoverished people whose parishes in England did not wish to support with money. Rather than go to the workhouse they were given the option of emigrating to Canada, New Zealand or Australia. You will find names of passengers for 23 ships sailing between 1836 and 1853 - ships that until this project had no known passenger list surviving! Also included are names of emigrants between 1836 and 1871.
Don't leave without searching for your ancestors on Olive Tree Genealogy! Free Ships' Passenger lists, orphan records, almshouse records, JJ Cooke Shipping Lists, Irish Famine immigrants, family surnames, church records, military muster rolls, census records, land records and more are free to help you find your brick-wall ancestor. Build your family tree quickly with Olive Tree Genealogy free records