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andelin
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Posted - 30/01/2002 :  11:21:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am researching a travel to Minneapolis, USA w/ dep Bergen on Cunard contract 21 Oct, 1904. Appreciate information on which ship, and route through England, and if ships schedules are available elsewhere as through ship index on this site.

If info is available on how connection Drammen to Bergen was made at the time, it is much appreciated.

Person researched is marked in Digitalarkivet/Emigrants Bergen as "Fripas", apparently travelling w/o charge. He was a Salvation Army Captain, info on possible charity-related tickets awarded by the ship line appreciated.

Many compliments on this excellent site; maybe is too excellent for me in order to find the info i need ;)

(Person researched is Gerhard Martin Olsen Smidt, born 1878 Bergen -- understand this info level can not be researched through this site, but posting this long shot anyway ...)

Thanks everybody !

Jan-Erik Andelin
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Borgå, Finland

Borge
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Posted - 13/02/2002 :  09:21:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We do not have records of the ships from Bergen. We hope to be able to reconstruct the sailing schedules from there in the future. The most likely connection used from Drammen to Bergen would be the railway. The Cunard line agent at the time was authorized to convey emigrants by steamship to Hull, by railway to Liverpool and by steamship to New York or Boston and from there on to the final destination. If Olsen Smith arrived to new York you should probably be able to find him in the Ellis Island web site.

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