Learn about your ancestors’ travels across the ocean with this
informative blog by Kerry Farmer. Try searching the Passenger
Lists leaving the UK 1890 - 1960 today and see what you can
find. It’s a common experience for genealogists – tracking
ancestors forward through the UK censuses – to find that
suddenly the whole family seems to vanish from the records.
Eventually it might occur to us to wonder, did they migrate
somewhere? If so, where did they go? This is where the Passenger
lists leaving UK 1890–1960 on findmypast.com.au can be so
useful. These are the digitised and indexed lists of passengers
embarking on long-distance voyages made from all British ports
(England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales). If the ship stopped en
route at additional ports, such as in Europe, passengers
disembarking at those stops are also included. The original
documents are held in The National Archives UK in series BT 27
(BT = Board of Trade). Findmypast has indexed together all
departures from all British ports, allowing researc