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Amanda Hernandez
Member
Username: aech
Post Number: 3
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:39 pm: | 
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I was wondering if anyone here on the site could confirm or dispute the evidence for a Hans Rasmussen and his sister from Racine, Wisconsin, on their way back from Denmark. I found a newspaper article from Racine on April 17th, 1912, saying that his cousin thought he was on the ship, but I can't find anymore information. Could someone point me in the right direction? |
Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 14364
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:13 am: |
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Amanda, unless they were traveling under assumed names (A possibility that can't be completely discounted) then the odds are vastly against these people being on board at all if their names don't show up on the passenger lists. Period newspapers I'm afraid, are notoriously unreliable as source material for this sort of thing. They weren't above making things up whole cloth and often as not, they or their sources were just plain wrong.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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