Sometimes the ship arrival records you're hoping for just can't be found, but hope is not lost! Perhaps your ancestor left a trace on the other side of the ocean. Here are a few sites that may help you finally identify the ship that carried your ancestor to America, not to mention when he or she made that fateful journey: [*]

• Office of Public Records in London:
  http://www.pro.gov.uk/



• National Maritime Museum of England:
  http://www.nmm.ac.uk/



• Searching for Ancestors in European Emigrant Records by Raymond S. Wright III, Ph.D., AG:
  http://www.genealogy.com/tip16.html



• But I Don't Speak the Language by Donna Przecha:
  http://www.genealogy.com/54_donna.html



• From 1850 to 1923, 5 million people left for the U.S. through Hamburg. The Hamburg State Archive has recently begun making their records available online, beginning with the ones from 1890 to 1893:
  http://www.linktoyourroots.com/



• Merseyside Maritime Museum:
  http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/