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EmiHamm Database

EmiHamm Database

Posted: 20 Oct 2013 10:11PM GMT
Classification: Immigration
Would like the complete information on Victor Martins b. 1868 who appears in this database. Would like to know the exact dates and ship he sailed from Stockholm on. Thank you for any help you can give me.

Re: EmiHamm Database

Posted: 1 Dec 2013 4:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
I think you must mean this man with an Americanized last name. He had already been to the U.S., so his Swedish parish is not listed on Emihamn. There is no listing on this cd telling ship names, by the way.

Efternamn (last name): MARTINS
Förnamn (given name): VICTOR
Ålder (age): 31 Kön (gender): M
Född (born): 1867/1868
Församling (parish: not named since he lived in the U.S. and had just returned to Sweden for a visit.): AMERIKA Län (county): US
Titel/Anm (title/remarks):
Utresehamn (moving out port): GÖTEBORG (Gothenburg)
Utvandrdag (moving out day): 1899 02 08 (8 February)
Destination (destination): NEW YORK
Medåkande (traveled with): NEJ (no)
Källkod (source code): 63:95:1325 (volume: page: ticket number)

I think that the world version of Ancestry.com has the "poliskammare" (harbor police) records. SVAR (a subscription site) does too and maybe Arkiv Digital (another subscription site) does also. These records will show the feeder ship taking the passengers to Hull or Grimsby in England, where they got on a train to cross to an English port such as Liverpool and Southampton to continue on a larger ship to cross the ocean.

A FAR more active board such as the following could have given you an answer almost immediately. This board is very inactive in comparison and most of us don't know about it or forget about it.

http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.scan-balt.sweden.gener...

Judy

Re: EmiHamm Database

Posted: 1 Dec 2013 5:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for answering my message..........Pat

Re: EmiHamm Database

Posted: 1 Dec 2013 6:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
You're welcome!

This is an example of what the feeder ship records look like. They are worth trying to find. In this example, the passenger ticket agent was F. Petersson.

http://arkivdigital.net/swedish-genealogy/passanger-ship-man...

The SweGGate site tells about these ticket agents.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~swewgw/Emigr/thEmiTrav_Age...

F. Petersson in the above example was probably Frans Petersson who represented the Guion Line of ships. Googling that line (as you could if this were your record) will tell you what ships sailed in that line and that would limit the number of ship arrivals you'd need to check.

Judy

Re: EmiHamm Database

Posted: 1 Dec 2013 6:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Dec 2013 6:35PM GMT
It is possible (not certain) that this is your Victor Martin at the time he emigrated the first time. This comes from the Emibas CD, an emigration index made from parish records. This is just a guess.

Post 286145

Persson Mårtensson, Victor Wilhelm
Dräng = farmhand (unmarried man)

b. 5/20/1867 in Alböke, Kalmar län (Öland)

Emigrated 5/12/1887
from Askelunda Nr 4, Alböke, Kalmar län (Öland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 19

Emibas migration file ID: Alböke H 1887 015

Perhaps you know the full birthdate of this man.

Judy

Re: EmiHamm Database

Posted: 1 Dec 2013 7:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
I do not know his exact birthdate. I have been doing this research for a friend of mine and Victor was her grandfather. She said they shortened Martinson/Martensson to Martins when her grandfather arrive in the U.S. Victor's daughter's passport application says that he immigrated about 1886 from Stockholm. The reference you sent could be his immigrations record. I will pass this on to her - maybe someone in her family will continue the research.

Thanks again for your help.........Pat
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