Passenger lists are used by family historians to trace the overseas movements of their ancestors – often due to emigration. You may be surprised to find that your forebear also travelled abroad for work, to study, to visit relatives or for tourism. Whatever the reason, there is a chance that one of your relations may appear in a passenger list and this can open up a new world of research possibilities for you in a different country.
Emigration may not always be immediately obvious to the researcher. An ancestor may disappear from one or two census returns before reappearing with no obvious clues as to where they have been. Many emigrants chose to return to their homeland, perhaps after a failed attempt at
