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Please support The Maritime Heritage Project.

The Maritime Heritage Project is committed to providing free information to absolutely everyone everywhere; the focus is world shipping during the 1800s, with a concentration on San Francisco Bay during the Gold Rush years.

The information on the site is an accumulation of 11-years of research on ships, captains, passengers, ports and goods moving around the world during one of the largest international migrations in history.

Our lists of passengers arriving in San Francisco seem to be more comprehensive than those of many paid-for services. Thousands of individuals from around the world have found links to family in these pages. Educators and historians frequently comment on the value of the information.

To date, with the exception of a few wonderful donors of funds and information, we have covered all expenses.

Now we are formally asking for your donations in helping to cover our modest budget and to expand the site to shed additional light on the migratory paths during the 1800s.

Reading through these pages brings to life that America was created by everyone and belongs to everyone; early settlers came over land bridges in the Bering Straits from Russia and Japan, up and down coastlines, across the Continent on foot and with horses, by early sailors from France, England, Russia, Spain, and, perhaps, by Polynesian people. Kent Madin of Boojum Institute kayaked solo from San Diego to Hawaii in the 1980s, so it is completely feasible.

Please help support our work.

Thank you.

D.A. Blethen Levy

 


° The plight of the Finns in the late 1800s
° The Deed for Benicia City from M.G. Vallejo
° Ports in Africa
° Cotton!
° News on the first of the ships to California's gold fields
° 1849: Publisher predicts that English will be the most spoken language in the world!
° December 1854: Market Review
° January 1, 1855: Gold discovered at Valparaiso
° April 23, 1855: The Crook Meiggs turns up in Chile!
°Report from the Sandwich Islands, September 10, 1858
° Lists from The Deep Sea Derby of 1853: Meteor and Queen of the Seas
° November 1850: The number of passengers who have crossed the Isthmus on their way to California January 1 to August 1 amounts to 13,375 . . .
° The Chronicles of Captain William Jackson Barry, who arrived in San Francisco on the Eleanor Lancaster, the first ship to leave Sydney, Australia for California's gold fields.
° Your Family Name? Illustrated family history books give an overview of family surnames, including historical timelines, migration patterns. Excellent for beginning genealogists or as family gifts for new babies, marriages, etc.
° Bibliography: 40+ years of reading, travel and research is the base for The Maritime Heritage Project.



Page: http://www.maritimeheritage.org/index
Date Entered: Between 1998 and 2009
Source: Daily Alta California, Family Papers, Historical Records, Submissions from Researchers

Research and WebDesign: D.A. Levy
Contact: D.A. Levy
www.MaritimeHeritage.org
Post Office Box 2878
Sausalito, California 94966
U.S.A.