I always like to look at life on board the Titanic as microcosm of how life in general used to be at that time. One of the more obvious and interesting aspects was how people from all over the world but Europe in particular, were moving to America, then seen as the land of opportunity.
Based on this situation, my question is what sort of documentation or other evidence was required for a given person to migrate from Europe to America in those days? To illustrate a case in point, supposing a hypothetical man named Patrick O'Malley, a healthy 24-year old single man from County Cork in Ireland decided to move to New York in search of a better life, what would he need to do?
Based on this situation, my question is what sort of documentation or other evidence was required for a given person to migrate from Europe to America in those days? To illustrate a case in point, supposing a hypothetical man named Patrick O'Malley, a healthy 24-year old single man from County Cork in Ireland decided to move to New York in search of a better life, what would he need to do?