G2G: Arrival dates of vessels in New Orleans, 1842

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I have a passenger list of the vessel "Columbiana" out of Le Havre, France, and arriving into New Orleans. I found it by searching for "Abraham Graf, *1818 Switzerland", and one of the returned records states:

Name

Abraham Graf

Birth

abt 1818

Departure

Le Havre, France

Arrival

20 May 1842 New Orleans, Louisiana

with a link to the passenger list. His name is on the passenger list (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7484/images/LAM259_22-0373) but try as a might I could not find the date of landing on this or any other record pertaining to this ship (or, indeed most other ships listed in the same collection). Where does the date of 20 May 1842 come from? Is there another master index that Ancestry somehow links in?

in Genealogy Help by Owl (101k points)

If you go to the same passenger list on familysearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5JP-9DNH)

and back up one page (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5JP-9D91) you'll see a page with the 20 May 1842 date for the Columbiana:

That page with the date appears to have been omitted from the version on Ancestry.

4 Answers

+5 votes
findagrave ID 88219166

Also, wikitree ID   Graf-1450
by Owl (804k points)

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+3 votes
The only list of ships to New Orleans I have found is here

https://www.immigrantships.net/v20/arrivalsv20/neworleansv20.html
by G2G-1 (1.2k points)

Th'xs Eliane Smith .. Great translated Listing !! 


+4 votes
Perfect!!! Thanks so much, Liz Brown, for sharing this information and for following up so long after my original post. I'd love to give you a "Best answer" sticker for these finds (if you want to convert your comment into an answer).
by Owl (101k points)

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