Outgoing UK Passenger Lists

[DavidWW]

Findmypast.com (formerly 1837.com) have announced as follows in their most recent newsletter -

BT27 Outbound Passenger Lists

Quite a few of you have been previewing our exciting new dataset which, once complete, will document all outbound voyages from major ports in Great Britain from 1890 to 1960. We're adding more and more data to our preview so do have a browse.

The preview site is at http://www.findmypast.com/passengerList ... art.action , but note that it's not free, - see http://www.findmypast.com/gettingstarte ... ayment.jsp for the cost of "units".


There's a neat summary of the BT27 records at http://www.newyorkpassengerlists.com/bt27.html

BT27 — Outward Passenger Lists 1890 - 1960

If you are researching Port of New York arrivals, then you'll want to know about BT27. While many Americans can locate their ancestors on passenger arrival records through Ellis Island, the BT27 records (Board of Trade, Series 27) are the list of outward passenger records departing U.K. ports from 1890 to 1960. This includes arrivals through New York, but also other American and Canadian ports coming from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. In addition, travel originating from other European countries that passed through one of the busy ports of the United Kingdom would also be included as part of this collection.

According to The National Archives based in London, a major digitization initiative is underway with contractors of the website 1837online.com already onsite and digitizing the entire BT27 series. It is estimated that the first batches of content will go live online late in 2006, with the entire series digitized and online by late 2007.

To make sure the scanning of the records is completed as quickly as possible, The National Archives (TNA) has had to temporarily suspend the advance ordering of BT27 records. They are working to minimize any disruption to availability, and will ensure that the number of pieces out of accessibility will be kept to a minimum at any one time. Please check that the pieces you wish to consult are not affected before you travel.

For the first time this fascinating series will be fully searchable by name, ship, port and date, further opening up what is already well-used resource at The National Archives, and giving you easy access to a digital copy of the original records.

David

[joette]

Brilliant I already had a wee swatch at it -the dates so far are too early/too late for mine but when completed willbe marvelous.

[emanday]

It costs £5 for 50 units valid for 90 days, but the cost per unit decreases the more you buy.

This particular set costs 5 units to view the transcript of a person, but 30 units to view the actual image of the whole page.

Although I'm not actually looking for anyone who went anywhere yet, I think it could be worth it once the project is completed.