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Look-up for emigration from Switzerland to England

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Re: Look-up for emigration from Switzerland to England

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 1:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
I took another look at the NY Passengers database -- ancestry.com clearly "mis-transcribed" the info. It reads SWITZERLAND and someone changed that to SWEDISH!

The NY Passenger info is actually from Ellis Island. You can see the original manifest at www.ellisisland.org AND you can see TWO pages, whereas ancestry.com only has ONE. Take a look, it's free. I don't know whether it will tell you anything new, but it's always fun to see original records, I think!

The Jean P. Arnold you mentioned can't be the one you're searching -- he was 34 at the time and that would give him a birthdate c. 1869. None of the Jean Arnolds immigrating into the UK have a birthdate close to 1877.

Whoops! I just took a look at the original image, not the results list. There is NO "Jean P. Arnold." The name looks like "Jessie P. Arnold" to me AND it's a woman (listed as wife.) Yet another mis-transciption on the part of Ancestry! :(
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tootle46 22 Oct 2008 8:27AM GMT 
AKAeGENEe 24 Oct 2008 7:56PM GMT 
tootle46 25 Oct 2008 8:37AM GMT 
AKAeGENEe 26 Oct 2008 7:51PM GMT 
tootle46 27 Oct 2008 11:05AM GMT 
tootle46 17 Nov 2008 10:21AM GMT 
AKAeGENEe 17 Nov 2008 8:36PM GMT 
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