List of passengers going to Titanic on the web

For the first time after 95 years of the fateful sinking of Titanic, the list of names and occupations of ill-fated people was posted online at www.findmypast.com .

A lot of handwritten pages of the list of passengers that day were posted online to tell about second-class ticket visitors.

From those lists, it was known about the painful reality, many people raised the hope of taking a train from Southampton to the US to build a new life in 1912.

The White Star, which had been advertised as "immersive", left the port on April 10, but after crashing into the ice, it was wrecked and claimed 1523 lives.

Among them was George Mackay, 20, who worked as a waitress in Scotland. George bought a third-class ticket and raised hopes of turning to a new page in the promised land in the United States.

In the first-class cabin according to the list of Countess Rothes, Mrs. Rothes accompanied her cousin Gladys Cherry and maid Roberta Maioni. All three survived because they were picked up by a Carpathia ship.

This unique list will be posted for free viewing on the website www.findmypast.com, an online research site that provides information about genealogies, which can be a base to help genealogists. The system studied the traces of the passengers' relatives. Previously, this list of national archives could only be viewed at Kew in southwest London.

The announcement of this fateful shipwreck victim list coincided with the commemorative activity at Southampton harbor on Sunday. This program was organized to commemorate hundreds of passengers and all sailors on the train who took that train and those who died when the ship sank in the middle of the Atlantic.

According to the findmypast website, the National Archives highly appreciate this list, according to them, its value must be on par with Henry VIII's divorce papers or the land register issued by William the Conqueror (1806) and is only allowed to search under supervision.

Also according to the spokesperson, the list also revealed detailed information about those who were lucky to escape when they left the ship ashore in France. In addition, according to the original documents, some people intend to board the ship. in Queenstown but then finally not up even though the ticket was in hand.

Do Duong

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