Immigration hints
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Marjorie Charlton said: I am working on Emil Schmuck ML3H-XR7. A hint shows him on a passenger list from Europe to New York. The form asks for natives of the U.S. to give birth place and current address. BUT the event type shows immigration. This has nothing to do with immigration. He took a trip and returned home. I've seen many ancestors where their is immigration listed for many different years. Maybe this is why. Can't another term be used instead of immigration?
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Paul said: I have encountered this, too. The problem probably lies in the fact that in many of these instances a good deal (sometimes even MOST) of the passengers WERE immigrating to the USA.
I don't know if FamilySearch could create two categories for the same set(s) of records, but it would be useful in these cases.0 -
Adrian Bruce said: I think it would be very tricky, Paul, to alter something as fundamental as that type on a record by record basis before it goes into Source Linker.
It's because of issues like this that I use "Arrival" as the event on my database on my laptop.
It's either that or I remind myself that I passed through Immigration at St. Louis airport and had to swear that I was leaving after a few days - despite all that, I'm sure that FamilySearch in xx years time will record an Immigration event against me. So, I just say that it means that I went through "Immigration" (the organisation)....0 -
Juli said: I've also come up against this. "Arrival" would be a much more accurate and flexible label for an event associated with a passenger list.1
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Marjorie Charlton said: I'm happy to hear someone else agrees.1
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Tom Huber said: If you have access to the image, the heading plays an important part. However, in a number of cases, you may have to go back to the first page for that arrival to see the name of the ship, etc.
Arrival would be a better term, but back then, immigration (meaning destination) was the common term used by those records, at least on the few records I have examined. In the one record I remember, the destination was listed, even for those entering the country for the first time.
One of the best sources for immigration records is the Steve Morse site https://stevemorse.org/0 -
Adrian Bruce said: I know that at some point, the "passenger lists" kept by Ellis Island could be stamped with "Non Immigrant Alien" - but exactly what that meant, I'm unclear. IIRC I've seen it used for people who were only going to be in the country temporarily, and for people who had been living in the US for some time, were not yet citizens, but had just paid a short visit back to the UK etc.0