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    FISHING AND WHALING

    Jun 01, 2021 3 minutes

    This month we’re looking at online resources to help you investigate ancestors who worked in fishing and whaling, as well as their wider communities. Although an individual fisherman might not have left much of a paper trail, larger fishing boats, trawlers and whaling ships were well documented, including the voyages that they undertook. Crew lists – essentially contracts of work that were drawn up before a ship set sail – can be a very

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