Mysterious Codes: Passenger Manifests Letters and Numbers, Christine Cohen

Date/Time
Date(s) - July 20, 2025
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Speaker
Christine Cohen

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JGSLA will join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Conejo Valley & Ventura County for a Zoom program.

Mysterious Codes: Passenger Manifests Letters and Numbers, Christine Cohen
JGSLA will join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Conejo Valley & Ventura County for a Zoom program.  The link will be sent to all JGSLA members and is for member use only.  Do not forward the link.

What do those letters, numbers, stamps, and pencil marks mean on Immigration Passenger Manifests? Does your ancestor have the letter “D” or “X” next to their name? Do you know what V/L, # 404, USB, Transit, CL, N.O.B, C/A, LPC, SI, NQIV, BSI, PV or C-XXXXX mean? We will learn if and when to contact the US National Archives or USCIS to get more genealogical information from these codes. Plus, what insight we can learn about your ancestor’s immigration experience based on these notations.

Speaker: Christine Cohen is a long time member of the Whittier Area Genealogical Society (WAGS) and she is currently the Program Director. In addition to WAGS, she is also a member of the El Redondo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Past 1st Vice Regent), the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames and the Association of Professional Genealogists.

Her interest in genealogy began in 1977 with the airing of the TV mini-series “Roots”. Christine’s enthusiasm was piqued when she was given a typed pedigree chart, commissioned by her maternal grandfather, of her Dutch heritage from the New Netherlands in the 1650’s. She is a native Californian, a graduate of UCLA in Political Science and has recently retired to pursue her genealogy interest full time.