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April 9, 2012 05:05 pm

200,000 Titanic-Related Documents Published Online


With the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking coming up, ancestry.com has released 200,000 documents online relating to the ill-fated ship. The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, a number of wills, and hundreds of coroner inquests. You can look at the Titanic document collection for free until May 13. From the article: "The records include the ship's official passenger list, which shows the names, ages and occupations of those on board the ill-fated liner.It also details the nationalities, positions and addresses of the ship's crew which had more than 900 members."

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