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Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS My Ship

Type the name of your ports (include country) here such as Liverpool, England to New York
Type the date of arrival

DISTRICT OF (copy from manifest) - PORT OF (copy from manifest)
I, (name of Captain), master of (name of ship) do solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm that the following List or Manifest, (continue typing sworn statement as is appears on manifest). So help me God. (signed) Type the name as best as you can. Sworn before me this (type the date) (signed) type the name if you can read it.
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the (type the name of the ship) whereof (type the name of the Captian), is master, from (type the name of the port of departure and any ports of call) burthen (type in the tonage) tons.
Columns represent: given name, surname, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit, accommodation. Or type in whatever columns are on your list. 
These are not real passengers, I leave them here so you can see the
spacing.  The numbers are indented to allow for three digit numbers.
Put your own passengers here and remove these.

  1* Landenberge, Louise   17  F  Single      Wurthenberg   United States  Betweendeck
  2  Tom, Emilie           22  F  Single      Prussia       United States  Betweendeck
  3  Tom, Henriette        20  F  Single      Prussia       United States  Betweendeck
  4  Malaska, Katharina    20  F  Single      Prussia       United States  Betweendeck
  5  Wamyu Boyder          16  M  Workman     Russia Poland United States  Betweendeck
  6* Albertine Schafer     18  F  Single      Prussia       United States  Betweendeck
  7  Paul Siegel           24  M  Coppersmith Prussia       United States  Betweendeck
  8  Robert Poppendiek     42  M  Merchant    U. States     United States  Betweendeck

(Signed)  type in the name of the Captain if he signed the list.

Transcriber's Notes:

Some of the names above are written last name, followed by a comma.

Others are written first name followed by last name.

You should type your passenger names as they are written on your manifest.

These passengers were numbered by the transcriber, not on original film.

 1 - the Country of origin could be Wurthenburg
 6 - Albertine could be Albertene
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 415. (change to the correct Film # and Reel # for your manifest)
Transcribed by (we need to be careful here. If you have transcriber a number of ships and you have a spam proof email link you will type Your Name Here otherwise you will type Your Name Here a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
todays date typed as 3 November 2011
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