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Suzy

Ship passenger

Legg inn av Suzy » 07 sep 2004 02:46:19

Hi everyone,
I am looking for a passenger that would of come over to the US before
1860. I have found him in the Wyoming census of 1860. But am at a
loss as to where I should try next. Family lore indicates that they
came from Wales. The name is Thomas A Davies who married a Sydney
Collins in Wyoming around 1865.

Unfortunately when I have tried to search for information on Davies in
Wales it is something similar to searching for a Smith or Johnson here
in the US.

So if anyone can give me some ideas of how to find out the
information, maybe even a clue on what I should look for in documents
to determine a birth place or even where I should look, that would be
great. I have run out of ideas.

Thanks for your help.
Suzy

Alan Jones

Re: Ship passenger

Legg inn av Alan Jones » 07 sep 2004 04:25:38

Do you have a birth year or approximation?


"Suzy" <werydsd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hi everyone,
I am looking for a passenger that would of come over to the US before
1860. I have found him in the Wyoming census of 1860. But am at a
loss as to where I should try next. Family lore indicates that they
came from Wales. The name is Thomas A Davies who married a Sydney
Collins in Wyoming around 1865.

Unfortunately when I have tried to search for information on Davies in
Wales it is something similar to searching for a Smith or Johnson here
in the US.

So if anyone can give me some ideas of how to find out the
information, maybe even a clue on what I should look for in documents
to determine a birth place or even where I should look, that would be
great. I have run out of ideas.

Thanks for your help.
Suzy

Alan Jones

Re: Ship passenger

Legg inn av Alan Jones » 07 sep 2004 05:44:34

Thomas Allen Davies who married Sidney Collins
was born 22 Feb 1843 in Jonhitel, Wales.


"Suzy" <werydsd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d0895a93.0409061646.613f4c5@posting.google.com...
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a passenger that would of come over to the US before
1860. I have found him in the Wyoming census of 1860. But am at a
loss as to where I should try next. Family lore indicates that they
came from Wales. The name is Thomas A Davies who married a Sydney
Collins in Wyoming around 1865.

Unfortunately when I have tried to search for information on Davies in
Wales it is something similar to searching for a Smith or Johnson here
in the US.

So if anyone can give me some ideas of how to find out the
information, maybe even a clue on what I should look for in documents
to determine a birth place or even where I should look, that would be
great. I have run out of ideas.

Thanks for your help.
Suzy

joe

Re: Ship passenger

Legg inn av joe » 07 sep 2004 19:16:54

Hello Suzy,
You might find this research guide helpful...

Finding Passenger Lists 1820-1940s (arrivals at US Ports)
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html

Good luck with your search.

Regards,
Joe

Suzy wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a passenger that would of come over to the US before
1860. I have found him in the Wyoming census of 1860. But am at a
loss as to where I should try next. Family lore indicates that they
came from Wales. The name is Thomas A Davies who married a Sydney
Collins in Wyoming around 1865.

Unfortunately when I have tried to search for information on Davies in
Wales it is something similar to searching for a Smith or Johnson here
in the US.

So if anyone can give me some ideas of how to find out the
information, maybe even a clue on what I should look for in documents
to determine a birth place or even where I should look, that would be
great. I have run out of ideas.

Thanks for your help.
Suzy

Lorine McGinnis Schulze

Re: Ship passenger

Legg inn av Lorine McGinnis Schulze » 10 sep 2004 00:22:05

On 6 Sep 2004 at 19:25, Alan Jones wrote:

"Suzy" <werydsd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d0895a93.0409061646.613f4c5@posting.google.com...
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a passenger that would of come over to
the US before 1860.


Hello

There are indexes to ships passenger lists for most ports
for the time period of interest to you.

You can get a list of film numbers (NARA & FHC) at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nar ... port.shtml

Scroll down to the state you want and click on the link,
then find the film # you need, then decide whether to order
it in to a nearby FHC or have NARA do a lookup.

The staff of the National Archives will undertake a search
of the original records for a fee.

To find your nearest FHC you can go to
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library ... et_fhc.asp

There are some ideas for researching hard to find
ancestors on ships lists after 1820 at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/usaaft1820.shtml

You might also want to try naturalization records, if you
need to narrow your time span for looking. There are great
clues in the 1870
census! If your ancestor has a check mark in the column
"Male Citizens of the United States of twenty-one years of
age and
upwards" you have a clue that
naturalization took place before 1870 :-)

To find out what questions were asked on various census
records see
http://www.ipums.umn.edu/~pipums/voliii/tQuestions.html

There is an explanation and Resource Guide to
Naturalization Records at http://naturalizationrecords.com/


For a Resource Guide to the records, what you can expect
to find, where to find them, and alternate sources of
finding those important years (immigration and
naturalization) at
http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/ Read the intro
then choose your state of interest.

There are also many links to searchable online
naturalization records at
http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/

Choose your state of interest from the list at the bottom
of the page then click on ONLINE records.

Lorine







Lorine McGinnis Schulze

* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists)
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/

* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/

* USA Genealogy
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/

otg@csolve.net or olivetreegen@netscape.net

Diane R. Reid

Re: Ship passenger

Legg inn av Diane R. Reid » 13 sep 2004 22:29:03

Don't rule out the idea that he came to the US via Canada.

Diane

Suzy wrote:

Hi everyone,
I am looking for a passenger that would of come over to the US before
1860. I have found him in the Wyoming census of 1860. But am at a
loss as to where I should try next. Family lore indicates that they
came from Wales. The name is Thomas A Davies who married a Sydney
Collins in Wyoming around 1865.

Unfortunately when I have tried to search for information on Davies in
Wales it is something similar to searching for a Smith or Johnson here
in the US.

So if anyone can give me some ideas of how to find out the
information, maybe even a clue on what I should look for in documents
to determine a birth place or even where I should look, that would be
great. I have run out of ideas.

Thanks for your help.
Suzy

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