Hello,
I seek 108 volunteers who will rent one microfilm from the National Archives
Series T715. Films 316 to 423. This covers every ship that has arrived in
New York City in 1903. I now have 48 volunteers and seek 60 more volunteers.
Each volunteer will transcribe only the names of every passenger list on one
microfilm onto paper and then into text files on their computer and
eventually email them to me after each text file gets finished. If you have
10 ships you can send 10 text files one at a time after each gets done.. The
text file name will have the film number, the month and day in 1903 and the
name of the ship. The file itself will have group of names of passengers who
arrived on that ship. I set no time limit when this will get done. Enjoy
your volunteer work, seeing that you will help others and yourself.
I'm currently assigning microfilms to those who wish to volunteer. I plan to
place the text files on a cd. I will either do the lookups myself or make
copies of the cd for free if someone sends me a cd. I will also share these
indexes with 4 organizations that will allow free lookups on these indexes.
AGLL at 800 658 7755 (www.heritagequest.com) rents or sells such films as
well as The National Archives or the Family History Centers.
Your public library can join AGLL for free. Then you can rent a film for
$3.25 plus shipping for a month and you can extend the rental by having your
library calling AGLL and extend it month by month for another $3.25 and then
you pay the library who will send the money to AGLL.
If you find that you need the film for 5 months and that appears fine with
me, you might want to buy the film for $17.95. You'll give the $17.95 to the
librarian and you would tell the librarian you want to have them buy the
film for $17.95 for you and you will make sure that you get the film as it's
owner.
If you find anyone else who would like to volunteer please have them write
to me.
Thank you.
PS.
For example the list will look like this in your editor creating a .txt file
T715 Roll 316 with the ship name SS Livonia arriving on
January 2,1903 would have the filename:
3160102SS Livonia.txt
and passenger names in the file.
John Smith
John Rolfe
Dudley DoRight
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George Washington
Bethpage, New York
United States of America
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The Bremen Project
Hello
Can you commit to doing the transcription of only the names of only one
ships passenger list? Noone will make any money on your work and the results
of your work will go to:
1) ISTG
2) Jewish Gen
3) FEEFHS
4) Tony Cimorelli's Ship Web Site
for free online searches.
I want to begin with 500 people who will commit to transcribing just the
names of only one passenger list, done at their own pace with no time limit.
You will need access to a microfilm reader and rent or buy one microfilm.
You will need to either handwrite the names to paper or copy the list with
just the names of the passengers on it. You do not need the other column
information. Then you will enter the names from paper into a text file and
email the text file to me when you complete it. You will label the text file
name according to the NARA film number date and ship name of the ship
passenger list you transcribe.
Many people through the port of Bremen Germany during the first decade of
the 20th century. The Bremen Emigration lists for the most part got
destroyed. Now some lists exist for the 1920's. However I want to see if I
can get volunteers to do lists for 1900-1905. Then later if I can get
another 500 volunteers I will have the volunteers do 1906-1910. The
wonderful aspect of this appears that this data will appear ONLINE for free
searching.
Can I get 500 people? Can you volunteer to do just the names of just one
passenger list? Also can you recruit 5 to 10 other people with net access to
volunteer as well? Please reply to me from this message.
Thank you very much.
Dennis Baer
Bethpage, New York
United States of America
dbaer@netmonger.net