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)   
      
   Destruction of written records like those is particularly bad from a   
   ganealogical point of view. Passenger lists are useful, but gnerally   
   far less useful, because they record less of the kind of information   
   that is likely to be useful to genealogists.   
      
   Destroying landing records is a bit like destroying birth registers 70   
   years after a person has died.   
      
      
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