San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists volume 1 Genealogy Book

Description

San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists
Louis J. Rasmussen
Book  totaling
273
pages. Book is in excellent condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
In the absence of official port records--destroyed by fire in  1940--this ambitious work attempts a reconstruction of passenger arrivals from  newspapers and journals. The volume offered here is a reprint of the first  volume in a series dealing with passenger arrivals at the port of San Francisco  between 1850 and 1875, though this first volume contains a selection of  passenger lists extending only though 1864. Interest in the book is inevitably  heightened by the fact that the passengers named in the lists came from all  parts of the United States, as well as from Europe, though probably the majority  were from East Coast points of origin. Here will be found listed approximately  13,500 persons who made the dramatic voyage to the celebrated El Dorado of  legend, many of whom were previously the elusive objects of extensive  genealogical searches, for some left their homes with hardly a trace, save for  the laconic notation in family Bibles and church records: "Gone West."
Typically, each passenger list, from the longest to the shortest,  is preceded by the following notations: name of ship, type of ship, port of  embarkation, date of arrival, name of captain, description of cargo, and notes  concerning the passage, which include date of departure, ports of call, length  of voyage, and names of passengers who died en route, with their places of  residence and dates of death. The list of passengers follows and sometimes  identifies accompanying family members.
"Recommended highly for all genealogical libraries."--
The  American Genealogist
(July 1966)
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