have people actually even googled this..there are thousands of hits.

here is one ...http://www.whitepinepictures.com/seeds/i/2/sidebar.html

I haven't done a historical analysis of this but one thing I know is that no matter how horrible something sounds, something worse has probably happened to someone. And there are great mysteries as to how people afforded the passage over....if you couldn't afford a crust of bread how could you cross the Atlantic....it was subsidized somehow...sometimes by landlords wanting to avoid poor house fees and taxes, sometimes by relatives etc.....but there is a whole lot of explaining to do. mg