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Re: Seeking whole family on manifest of SS Cedric
Aina and the children arrived in NY on 4 Aug 1907 on the SS Campania.
It was common for the husband or an older (late teens to 20's) son to come first and find a job and place to live and perhaps earn enough to pay the passage for other family members. In this case Ella was only a month old or slightly less when her father came to the US, so they may have been waiting until they thought it was safe for her to travel.
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Re: Seeking whole family on manifest of SS Cedric
Thank you very much. But may I ask, how did you manage to find Aina and the girls, and so quickly? I tried various spellings in the passenger search, with no success. Then, yesterday, a relative directed me to the ship, Campania, and even had the correct date. But the list had about 4,600 entries, handwritten at that, and I gave up.
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Re: Seeking whole family on manifest of SS Cedric
I was using Ancestry.com to search for the arrival, since they have the most complete index. I have learned after years of doing research and many years as a genealogy volunteer at NARA (prior to Covid) that often less is better, when looking for arrivals. On Ancestry.com you can search using just 3 letters plus and *. Young children are often easier to find than adults. After noting that the family consistently used 1907 as the arrival year and after several failed attempts, I searched for the youngest child using Ell* (no last name), birth year 1906 +/- 1, birthplace Finland (checked as exact), arrival 1907 in NY and then went down the list of results until I found something that looked like a possible person.
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Re: Seeking whole family on manifest of SS Cedric
My hat is off. My thumb is up. I bow my head.
OK - words fail me. Keep up the good work!
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Re: Seeking whole family on manifest of SS Cedric
Cara Jensen
Nov 3, 2020 1:21 PM
1 person found this helpfulDear Mr. Aaltonen,
Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!
The digitized information from the previous poster showing Juho Pakarinen’s wife and children was obtained from the National Archives Catalog series titled Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957 (T715) in the Records of the U.S. Customs Service (Record Group 36). For access to T715, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDT1) via email at archives1reference@nara.gov.
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T715 is available and searchable on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, There may be a fee for using Ancestry. Instead, check for access at your local library as many library systems subscribe to these sites, making them free for their patrons. In addition, the NARA publication on Immigration Records may also be useful.
We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your research!
