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==What can you find in immigration and emigration records?== | ==What can you find in immigration and emigration records?== | ||
Immigration to a country and emigration from a country can involve the same record. Logically, a ship's passenger list is used to record people leaving a country on the ship (emigration) and arriving in another country on the ship (immigration). | |||
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*Passenger lists before 1820 included '''name, departure information and arrival details'''. The names of wives and children were often not included. | *Passenger lists before 1820 included '''name, departure information and arrival details'''. The names of wives and children were often not included. | ||