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Stephen P. Morse, San Francisco (e-mail: [email protected])


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Ethnicity (check any that might apply, or leave blank)
Abyssinian Afghan African African (black) Albanian Algerian Alsatian
American Arabian Argentinian Armenian Asian Australian Austrian
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Bohemian Bolivian Bosnian British Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian
Canadian Carinthian Caucasian Central American Ceylonese Chilean Chinese
Colombian Congolese Costa Rican Croation Cuban Cypriot Czechoslovakian
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El Salvadoran English Estonian European Falklander Filipino Finnish
Flemish French French-Canadian Galician Georgian German Gibraltarian
Goanese Greek Guatemalan Guyanese Gypsy Haitian Hawaiian
Hebrew Herzegovinian Hindu Honduran Icelander Indian Iraqi
Irish Islam Istrian Italian Italian (North) Italian (South) Jamaican
Japanese Kurdish Kustenlander Korean Latin Latin American Latvian
Lebanese Liberian Libyan Liechtensteiner Lithuanian Livonian Luxembourger
Maceonian Magyar Malaccan Malayan Maltese Manxman Mauritanian
Mexican Monegasque Mongolian Montenegrin Moravian Moroccan Mulatto
Native American Newfoundlander New Zealander Nicaraguan North American Norwegian Pacific Islander
Palestinian Panamanian Paraguayan Parsi Persian Peruvian Polish
Pomeranian Portuguese Prussian Puerto Rican Roumanian Russian Ruthenian
San Marinese Scandinavian Scottish Senegalese Servian Siamese Sierra Leonean
Singaporean Slav Slovak Slovenian Somalilander South Africa South American
Spanish Spanish-American Spanish-American Surinamese Swedish Swiss Syrian
Tangerine Tunisian Turkish Ukrainian Uruguayan Venexuelan Walloon
Welsh West Indian White Yugoslav Zoroastrian

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Ports (check any that might apply, or leave blank)
Algeria: Algiers Oran
Anatolia: Constantinople
Argentina: Buenos Aires Rosario, Sante Fe
Australia: Sydney, New South Wales
Austria: Carnaro, Triest
Austria-Hungary: Fiume, Croatia, Croatia and Slavonia, Hungary Triest, Austria
Barbados: Bridgetown, Saint Michael
Belgium: Antwerp
Bermuda: Hamilton
Brazil:
Bahia Ceara Manaus, Amazonas Recife, Pernambuco
Santa Maria de Belem do Grao, Para Santos, Sao Paulo Sao Pedro, Rio Grande do Sul Vitoria, Espirito Santo
Canada:
Campbellton, Dalhousie, Restigouche, New Brunswick Halifax, Nova Scotia
Montreal, Quebec Quebec, Quebec
Saint John's,Newfoundland Saint John, New Brunswick
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Chile:
Antofagasta Coronel, Concepcion Cruz Grande, Coquimbo
Iquique, Tarapaca Talcahuano, Biobio Valparaiso
Colombia: Cartagena, Bolivar Panama
Costa Rica: Port Limon, Limon
Cuba:
Antilla, Oriente Baracoa, Oriente, Oriente Caibarien, Santa Clara Cardenas, Matanzas
Chaparra, Oriente Cienfuegos, Santa Clara Daiguiri, Oriente Havana
Jucaro, Camaguey Manzanillo, Oriente Matanzas Nuevitas, Camaguey
Santiago de Cuba, Oriente
Danish West Indies: Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Saint Croix
Denmark: Copenhagen City, Copenhagen
Dominican Republic: Monte Cristi Puerto Plata San Pedro de Macoris
Dutch West Indies: Curacao
Ecuador: Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayas
Egypt: Alexandria, al-Iskandariyah
France:
Bordeaux, Gironde Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais Brest, Finistere
Calais, Pas-de-Calais Cherbourg, Manche Dunkirk, Nord
La Pallice, Charente-Inferior Le Havre, Seine-Inferior Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhone
Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Inferior
French West Africa: Dakar, Cape Vert, Senegambia
Germany:
Bremen Bremerhaven, Bremen Cuxhaven, Hamburg Danzig, West Prussia, Prussia
Hamburg Libau, Posen, Prussia Norden, Hanover, Prussia
Gibraltar: Gibraltar
Greece: Patras, Akhaia, Peloponnessos Piraeus, Attica, Central Greece and Euboea
Guatemala: Puerto Barrios, Izabal
Haiti: Cap Haitien, Nord Port-au-Prince, Ouest
Hong Kong: Hong Kong
Ireland: Queenstown, Cork, Munster
Italy: Genoa, Liguria Leghorn, Livorno, Tuscany Messina, Sicily Naples, Campania Palermo, Sicily Venice, Venezia
Jamaica: Kingston, Surrey Port Antonio, Portland, Surrey
Japan: Port Kobe, Hyogo
Martinique: Fort-de-France
Mexico: Palo Blanco, Veracruz Port Lobos, Vera Cruz Tampico, Tamaulipas Veracruz Llave, Veracruz
New Zealand: Wellington City
Nicaragua: Bluefields, Zelaya San Juan del Norte, Rio San Juan
Norway: Bergen, Hordaland Christiansand, Vest-Agder Kristiania, Akershus Stavanger
Panama: Colon Cristobal, Canal Zone Puerto Balboa, Canal Zone Puerto Chorrera, Panama
Porto Rico: San Juan
Portugal: Sao Miguel, Ponta Delgada Terceira, Angra do Heroismo
Prussia: Geestemuende, Hanover
Romania: Constanta
Sierra Leone: Freetown, Southern Province
South Africa: Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope
Spain: Barcelona Bilbao, Biscay Cadiz, Biscay Huelva Palamos, Gerona
Sweden: Goteborg
The Bahamas: Nassau, New Providence Group
The Netherlands: Amsterdam, North Holland Rotterdam, South Holland
Trinidad and Tobago: Port-of-Spain
UK:
Avonmouth, Gloucestershire, England Barrow, Lancashire, England Barry, Glamorgan, Wales
Belfast, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland Bristol, England Cardiff, Wales
Glasgow, Scotland Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland Hull, England
Leith, Edinburghshire, Scotland Liverpool, England London, England
Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland Manchester, England Moville, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
Newcastle upon Tyne, England Newport, Monmouthshire, England Plymouth, Devon, England
Portland, Dorset, England Southampton, Southamptonshire, England Swansea, Wales
Tilbury, Essex, England
USA: Los Angeles New Orleans San Francisco
Uruguay: Montevideo
Venezuela: Caracas, Distrito Federal Maracaibo, Zulia
West Indies: Unknown Port

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