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Articles for Newbies:

Hunting Passenger Lists:

An article describing how, and where, to look for passenger information about Norwegian emigrants

1: Emigration Records - Sources - Timeline

2: Canadian Records (1865-1935)

4: US arrivals - Customs Passenger Lists

5: Port of New York Passenger Records

6: Norwegian Emigration Records

7: British outbound passenger lists

The Transatlantic Crossing:

An article about how the majority of emigrants would travel. It also gives some insight to the amazing development in how ships were constructed and the transportation arranged

1: Early Norwegian Emigrants

2: Steerage - Between Decks

3: By sail - daily life

4: Children of the ocean

5: Sailing ship provisions

6: Health and sickness

7: From sail to steam

8: By steamship across the ocean

9: The giant express steamers

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Boarding ship
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Featured article

FREE PASSAGE TO NORTH-AMERICA - On the S/S Manchester Shipper in 1902 - In 1902 several thousand people were witnesses to the departure of one of the most spectacular crowds of emigrants ever to have left the port of Kristiania. This happened when almost 500 young Norwegians boarded the S/S Manchester Shipper at Vippetangen for a free passage to Canada