From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 12:28:21 -0700 (PDT), Chris Dickinson   
    wrote:   
      
   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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