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You Can Now Trace Your Family History Onboard Cunard!

You Can Now Trace Your Family History Onboard Cunard!

For the first time ever, Cunard has collaborated with Ancestry.com, the largest online family history resource in the world.

The line’s partnership with the website will offer guests the opportunity to trace their family history on flagship liner Queen Mary 2 while sailing across the Atlantic.

Cunard are proud to invite guests to join Ancestry’s genealogy experts to uncover the fascinating and sometimes surprising past of the ancestors of some of their guests, senior officers, and crew.

The line state on their website that a new story unfolds each day, rich in international diversity and life stories.

Cunard played a critical role in the immigration movement to the US in the late 1800s; one in five immigrants who came through Ellis Island arrived on a Cunard liner.

This crossing offers an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of ancestors and experience sailing across the Atlantic in the way many immigrants did.

The seven-night Transatlantic Crossing, departing November 4th 2018 and returning November 11th 2018, will feature four genealogists from Ancestry to assist guests in learning who they are and where they come from.

These experts will show guests where their family originated and how to sift through census and military records.

They will demonstrate how data drawn from the largest online collection of family history records can help trace your family’s past; you’ll learn how AncestryDNA can introduce you to living relatives you never knew existed and reveal your ethnic mix across 1,000 years.

Ancestry genealogy experts include:

Jennifer Utley: director of research who oversees Ancestry.com research for the television shows Who Do You Think You Are? and Long Lost Family

Angie Bush: genetic genealogist who uses her knowledge of traditional genealogy and genetics to solve complex questions of kinship and identity- her areas of expertise are DNA, unknown parentage, 20th century, and the Midwestern US

Crystal Beutler: part of Ancestry ProGenealogists, specializes in US Southern and Mid-Atlantic research, lineage society research, and works on episodes of the genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?

Simon Pearce: also part of Ancestry ProGenealogists and specializes in researching military ancestors from the First and Second World Wars

“Cunard has a deep history with immigration to the US,” said Josh Leibowitz, SVP Cunard North America.

“Cunard’s partnership with Ancestry.com for the November transatlantic crossing will be an extraordinary experience for our guests to learn about their ancestors as they retrace their passage to the US, sailing into New York on a Cunard liner.”

Cunard is offering a unique two-night post-voyage tour of Ellis Island and New York’s Ancestral Trail which offers insight into the early history of New York in downtown Manhattan including historical landmarks such as Wall Street, the New York Exchange, Federal Hall and the Trinity Church.

A detailed 90-minute guided tour of Ellis Island will include the immigration halls and immigrant hospital buildings.

 

What do you think of Cunard’s new partnership with Ancestry.com? What did you vote in our poll? Do you think this would be an amazing opportunity or are you uninterested? Leave us your comments…

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