Help with historic documents

Subject: Help with historic documents
From: An Englishman Abroad
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 11:35 AM

I am trying to save a lot of searching on the net with this question.

I have a friend here in the USA who has a lot of information about a distant relative from Wales around the mid to late 1700s. She knows he was an Indentured Clerk and sailed from London with a ship load of other Indentured people. There must be some records of the sailing somewhere.Also is Sommerset House still the place to get records. How would you go about geting the information.

Any help appreciated.

all the best John

Subject: RE: Help with historic documents
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 11:41 AM

It may now be 'The Public Record Office'- which you would find at:

                      Kew,
                      Richmond,
                      Surrey,
                      TW9 4DU
                      England.

I know they store lots of the ship passenger lists as well as birth, death, and armed forces records. Good Luck.

Subject: RE: Help with historic documents
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 11:47 AM

ps Just found this additional info on my 'Reader's Ticket' from there..

General Enquiries 0208 3925200
Additional Document Ordering 0208 3925260
Document Copying    0208 8763444 ext 2352
Internet   http://www.pro.gov.uk/

Subject: RE: Help with historic documents
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 01:43 PM

Look at cyndi's list.com. It has an exhaustive amount of links to all kinds of genealogical research sites. I am sure I found some ships' records there, at one time. If I still had my membership an ancestry.com, I'd look it up for you. They have lots and lots of records, too, but they DO charge. I've noticed each time they add a popular databank the up the price for use of.

When I have more time, I'll see if I can find that ships' listings.

All the best,

kat

Subject: RE: Help with historic documents
From: GUEST,An Englishman Abroad
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 01:56 PM

Thanks folks I knew I could trust you to help

John

Subject: RE: Help with historic documents
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 04:24 PM

you can find ships passenger lists for free,
if you just do a google search, although there are some sites that
charge,

heres a free one ships lists

it helps to vary the spelling of the name, as often the list was transcribed by volunteers and its not always easy to make out the names.
there are some sites that also have digitized images of the ships list
(which means that it might be more accurate but harder to search)
cheers
Petr

Subject: RE: Help with historic documents
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 04:34 PM

The Public Record office at Kew does mostly service records. For geneology (family history) you need to apply to:

The Family Record Centre
Farringdon
London
NW1

It's not been Somerset House for many years.

You can employ researchers here who will do it for you, or you could try Genforum
which will take you to one of my family pages but should get you some ideas.

Good luck.... it's very time consuming and engrossing.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Help with historic documents
From: GUEST,An Englishman Abroad
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 11:52 AM

Thanks all

Very good information


all the best    John