10 June 2016
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Ancestry.com - 1930 U.S. Federal Census of Merchant Seamen
Census images and every name-searchable index available by subscription. For the first time in 1930, the U.S. Census Bureau enumerated merchant seamen serving on US-flaged merchant vessels on a special Merchant Seamen schedule. Seamen who were to be enumerated on this special schedule were all persons aboard ship, except officers who had regular or fixed places of abode ashore. Returns includes name, age at last birthday, marital status, birth place, citizenship, literacy, occupation & more.
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Ancestry.com - Indexes to Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications and Proofs of Citizenship $
Original source: Dixon, Ruth Priest. Indexes to Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications and Proofs of Citizenship. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998.m Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Original source: Rhode Island Historical Society. Register of Seamen's Protection Certificates from the Providence, Rhode Island Customs District, 1796-1870. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., Citizenship Affidavits of US-born Seamen at Select Ports, 1792-1869 $
Original source: Proofs of Citizenship Used to Apply for Seamen's Protection Certificates at the Ports of Bath, Maine, 1833, 1836, 1839
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British Mercantile Marine and Fishing Fleets c.1835 - c.1972
British mercantile records of the 19th and 20th centuries. A realistic guide to what is available to those looking into merchant mariners
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CLIP - Crew List Index Project
CLIP was set up to improve access to the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th century and has gathered the largest database of entries from crew lists for the period 1861 to 1913.
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Diving Heritage, the world
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Findmypast - Index To Register Of Passport Applications 1851-1903 $
Discover if your UK ancestors applied for a passport during the second half of the 19th century.
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Findmypast - Thames Watermen & Lightermen 1688-2010 $
Search through 99,098 occupational records of The Company of Watermen and Lightermen for the period 1688-2010. The collection includes records from the Corporation of Trinity House, Thomas Doggett coat and badge race and binding and reassignment records from The Company.
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Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
Lunenburg. Commemorates the fishing heritage of the Atlantic Coast of Canada.
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Genealogical Fallout from the War of 1812
By Ruth Priest Dixon for Prologue Magazine, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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A collection of history and memorabilia surrounding Marine and Ship Captains and Sailors who dedicated their lives to Great Lakes Shipping and Transport.
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Irish Mariners - Irish Merchant Seamen 1918-1921
This website has details of over 23,000 Irish born and 1000 Canadian born merchant seamen and their voyages contained in the CR10 series of central index cards held in the Southampton Civic Archives. The CR10 Archive holds 300,000 cards covering the multinational workforce of the British Merchant Marine from early September 1918 and the closing two months of the Great War until December 1921. It only includes men working from British ports. All ranks are covered from master to cabin boy.
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New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum
Tofte, Minnesota.
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Online Resources: Mystic Seaport
Mystic Seaport Collections and Research Department: Online Resources. Ship Registers, Yacht Registers, Connecticut Ship Database, Protection Certificates, Crew Lists, Immigration Vessels, E-Collections, Whalemen's Shipping List, American Whaling Voyages.
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Penn State University Libraries - Centre Daily Times Obituary Index
The Index includes only obituaries or death notices included in the obituary section of the Centre Daily Times, 1937-2014, and does not include news stories about deaths that appeared in other sections.
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Seamen's Protection Certificate Register Database
The data (sailor names, ages, birth and residences places) included on these pages is taken from the original Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates issued at the Custom Houses of Fall River, Gloucester, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Marblehead. There are entries for 23,436 certificates issued from 1796-1871.
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Society of Genealogists Historical Divers Index
To date the Historical Divers Index comprises approximately 4,900 names of divers, divers tenders, attendants, linesmen, and diving related trades.
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Waterfront Workers History Project
Explores this vital history, focusing first on the men and women who have worked in the ports, the inland waterways, the fisheries, canneries, and other waterfront industries of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. From the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington.
