VPRS 8795 Microfiche Index to Register of Inward Shipping (Overseas and Intercolonial Ports)

This series comprises a microfiche copy of an Index to the Register of Inward Shipping (Overseas and Intercolonial Ports) VPRS 8794. The Index was first compiled on cards and later entered onto a database and output to the format microfiched.The Index is an alphabetical arrangement of the family names of the passengers recorded in the Register between January 1846 and October 1847. The information provided on the index is the full name and title of each passenger, arrival date, ship name, port of departure, fiche reference for the register and the number of the page, in the register, on which each passenger's name appears.The ships' captains are indexed for the full period, 1846 - 1852. The family names are interfiled with those of the passengers in the single alphabetical sequence.