Photocopies of passenger lists, ship damage
tdavis3913	I have 3 questions about the ship records: (1) I recently found a passenger list for my great grandfather, Olaf Anderson (not Amunson) Asp, and the ship Nornen which left Christiana April 19 and arrived at Quebec July 6th, 1868, ID 1349. Your information says I can request a photocopy of the list from the NAC. What is the NAC and how do I contact them? (2) Did these ships continue the voyage through the great lakes as my great grandfather lists the port of Chicago as the point of entry on his naturalization records? (3) A family story also has the ship loosing its rudder in a bad storm which delayed the arrival in America. Due to the delay a son was born on the ship just before arrival. Where would I look for this information? Thank you in advance for your help.
Borge	Hi 1) NAC is short for: National Archives of Canada 2) This ship disembarked the passengers at Quebec, the emigrants proceeded by another smaller boat or by train from Quebec 3) I do not know anything about the rudder incident, it might be something about it in the contemporary newspapers. This might be connected to the story about the one voyage when they almost ran out of food supplies, and this almost caused a mutiny among the passengers. The mutiny was stopped by the crew. I can clearly see on the passenger list that a second infant was added to the number, and a very faded remark which I can not read next to the family, see the scan: [img]http://www.norwayheritage.com/images/nornen1868-01.jpg[/img]
tdavis3913	Borge, I just found the reply to your messange in response to my questions. I don't know how to begin to say THANK YOU. I have been looking for the ship information for at least 30 yrs, off and on, and it is so exciting to finally find the information and have a copy of the original passenger list. The child that was born was named Carl Otto (Charles) Asp who had 10 children of which only 4 are still living. What a wonderful Christmas present this will be this year. Tom Davis