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10 January 2006

A Journey of Discovery at findmpyast.com

Records of 30 million passengers on thousands of ships sailing to destinations worldwide

Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard.com, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. With ancestorsonboard.com, you can search for records of individuals or groups of people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Passengers include not only immigrants and emigrants, but also businessmen, diplomats and tourists. Images of the passenger lists are available to download, view, save and print.

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How to view BT27 records online?
To start searching the BT27 passenger lists click here. You will need pay-per-view units to view all the BT27 records online. If you haven't done so already, simply sign in here then go to the "buy units" link in the green column on the left hand side of the screen.

Want to find out more?
To find out more about the digitisation of these records, for interesting finds and discoveries, and to hear more about when particular years or decades are launching, make sure to visit our News section.

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