The complete passenger lists for the RMS Titanic are available to view online for one week only at the genealogy site findmypast.com. This is apparently the first time these lists have been available on the internet. Both the original handwritten documents and transcripts may be viewed – again only for a week and registration is required.
I did not bother registering since I know none of my ancestors were on the ship - my fathers side was here long before that and my mother's parents arrived later from a completely different country. Incidentally, tomorrow is the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of 1,500 or so souls. (The numbers are reported differently depending on the source. The British tally disagrees with the American one.)
Some of my relatives were on the Mayflower. Others met the Mayflower.
Dad’s side had the uncommon good sense and taste to get thrown out of France after Louis XIV abrogated the Treaty of Nantes. That was 1685. So we predate the US as the US by almost a century – my wife’s ancestors met both ships.
Well you beat my family by almost 50 yrs, Gaius. We think our family was part of a group that was invited here by William Penn. Arrived about 1730. The Titanic has always fascinated me. A whole series of events had to wrong for the event to come out like it did. In that way it is like Pearl Harbor, where again a whole series of events had to go wrong to enable the disaster to occur.
Yeah, the Titanic was a poster child for bad engineering decisions and poor quality control. Just running the watertight bulkheads all the way up instead of only partway alone would have saved the ship. A better understanding of metallurgy would have done the same.