Archive for February, 2012
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Second Passports . . .
Since 1984, the St. Kitts & Nevis Citizenship Act has allowed foreign investors who acquire qualifying real estate to obtain citizenship and a passport. To apply for citizenship, you must invest a minimum of US$250,000 in real estate. In addition, government fees of US$35,000 or more apply, depending on the number of applicants. The four [...]
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Capt. John R. Howard
Hello from Sebastopol . . . In reviewing your site, I find the above name and where he lived in S.F., but not the name of his ship nor home port. We do know that it was the “Gold Rush” era as some of the crew jumped ship in S.F. bay and made their way [...]
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Captains 1860-1890
I have a Victorian photo album which contains nine named cabinet portraits and one carte de visite, all taken in San Francisco around 1860-1890, of ships’ captains and an officer. The men mostly appear to be from Scotland and England, associated with ships built mainly in Scotland, but one photo is of Captain Bangs (or [...]
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Steamship “MacGregor”
Anyone who knows of a photo of a steamship named “MacGregor” that used to ply between Sydney-Auckland and San Francisco in the 1870′s. I would also like to know what happened to a relative of mine named Alexander MacKenzie who was a crew member in the 1875 voyage from Sydney to San Francisco. A rumour [...]