DIPPAM<\/a> (Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People, and Migration), which includes many items about ships and transportation.\u00a0 Using this, I was able to verify that the ship North Star did indeed exist, and departed from Londonderry on 1 June 1812 bound for New York.\u00a0 I was also able to search Filby\u2019s index*, which showed two McFarland families, apparently on the same ship, who landed in New London, Connecticut in 1811, as well as one who landed in New York City in 1812.\u00a0 Now to tease out the inconsistencies in my information.\u00a0 And figure out where the North Star actually landed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Filby, P. William, ed.\u00a0Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of … Passengers who Came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries<\/em><\/strong>. 3 volumes plus annual supplements. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981-__. This series is a finding aid to\u00a0published<\/em> passenger lists. Be sure to read the “front material” to understand how to use the information you find.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFilby, P. William, ed.\u00a0Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography, 1538-1900<\/em><\/strong>. 2d ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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