From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Saturday, 21 April 2018 18:40:10 UTC+1, MB  wrote:   
   > With all the hot air at the moment about the Empire Windrush, why are   
   > the landing cards more important than the Passenger Lists which can be   
   > seen on Ancestry so presumably also easily available from TNA?   
   >   
   >   
   > If someone does not arrive then their name is crossed out on the   
   > Passenger List.   
      
   I'm trying not to get into political territory.   
      
   The TNA records are not complete nor duplicate the records destroyed. For   
   instance, they don't include arrivals by plane, and (I think, though could   
   well be wrong) only numbers of children rather than more specific details.   
      
   The problem with incomplete records is that absence from the written record   
   does not prove anything (genealogists should be acutely aware of that)   
      
   This raises loads of political, practical, humanitarian and ethical issues   
   (which I would argue forcefully on other forums), but these are not   
   appropriate here.   
      
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