From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:34:56 +0100, MB  wrote:   
      
   >On 22/04/2018 11:22, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   That depends on the exact purpose of the landing records. Were they   
   _then_ there for immigration purposes, ensuring the safe opperation of   
   shipping, detecting criminals/undesirables (on grounds other than   
   "being foreign") at the point of landing or something else ?   
      
   >I have not seen a landing card from that period in of the coverage of   
   >this.  Wonkypedia has a list of items included but I suspect that is a   
   >more modern one.   
   >   
   >Perhaps it is more like keeping a form that people fill when requesting   
   >a birth is registered.   
   >   
   >You can't keep everything, I see a lot of "express" online saying they   
   >should digitise them as if that is a trivial task.   
      
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