Thursday, January 26, 2012

Historical Russian Immigration Data

Have developed a new project around Russian immigration data from the 1800s.

ABSTRACT: This series consists of records of 527,394 passengers who arrived at the United States between 1834 through 1897 and identified their country of origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine. There are records of passengers who were U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens planning to continue their travels, returning to the U.S., or staying in the U.S. There are records of passengers arriving at the following ports: Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia; the bulk of the records are for passengers arriving at the Port of New York.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Person Search for 2012

This is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar and we bid the rabbit people year a fond farewell. - To celebrate the new year I thought it might be fun to do some testing of a new site devoted to people who have been serving as a core user base for a wide range of chronological scoring. - You'll have to go the site to see what I'm talking about.