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Topic: Can anybody out there help me? Date needed (Read 347 times)
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Hero
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Hi All this is a challenge even for the best of you. lol
I was born in the USA in 1962 and came to the UK when i was about 6 months old at sometime time in 1963. I don't know the date of what day i entered the UK or what airline was used. The passport used is now no longer available as it was 1963. I have asked the American Embassy if they could help with the info i need, They have told me they only have records dating back to 1983.
What i need to know is...
1. What Airline was used for me to be brought over here?
2. What date i came here?
3. How do i obtain a passinger list to confirm this?
4. Has anybody out there got any idea how i can begin to obtain such infomation?
I know my parents had been living in Virginia, USA and after the flight we lived in Middlesex area here in the UK, so probably landed at Heathrow Airport. I'm told that the only people on the Passport was us 4 children at the time, all under the age of 5 years old.
If anybody feels they can help me in any way please do as i feel i just keep hitting a brick wall with this problem, and i really do need to know this. If you need any other info to try and help me PM me
Can you succeed where i have failed? Any help would be nice.
Thank you for your time.
Hero
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KELLY family in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
JOHNSON family in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
DEFFENBAUGH family in U.S.A.
RICHARDS family in England, UK
TURNER family in Engalnd, UK
WYATT family in Middlesex, England, UK
HARPER family in Scotland
Shafer family in U.S.A.
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aghadowey
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The reason no one has replied to your post might be because the information you want to find might no longer be available.
If the American Embassy (London?) has no records you could try contacting the U.S. Passport Office in Washington, D.C. When I had a citizenship issue the offices in Belfast and London didn't know what to do and had to contact Washington for further instructions.
Here's the U.S. State Department passport page:
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
I doubt the airline would have details of passengers from almost 50 years ago.
If you became a U.K. citizen (either yourself or through a family member) there would have been forms filled out at the time.
Not sure exactly why you are looking for these details (and you certainly don't have to explain) but if it's for something official, like citizenship, for example, the U.S. or British governments will have to advise you.
I've already given you U.S. address and here's the British address:
http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/
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johnnyboy
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Hi Hero: The title of your thread made me thing that you were looking for someone to go to the movies or have dinner with  , but I see now this is more serious.
If the passport was American, the U.S. Dept. of State has a copy of the passport record. Here is a complete web address to find how to get a copy of the passport record: http://travel.state.gov/passport/services/copies/copies_872.html.
If your parents are still able, one of them can apply for the passport record. If not, you should note in the letter you write to the Dept. of State that you were a minor child on the record.
If you apply, there should be no cost, since you were a minor child named in the record.
The Dept. of State website says that dates of travel and the like are not part of the passport record. Being born in the U.S. may have necessitated that you parents apply for visas for you and your siblings, you might want to contact whichever office in the U.K. issued visas in 1963 (was it the Home Office?) to check on whether or not a visa was required. Just a way of turning over every stone.
If you do apply for the Passport Record, be prepared to wait, and when you mail it back to the address listed on the website, just remember that in the address the last ten digits listed after Washington, DC (202 955-0447) are not part of the address. They are the telephone area code and number for the office that will process your request. Why they appear where they do is a mystery.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
John 
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ENGLAND, YKS: SLATER of Ovenden and Halifax; DRURY of Darton, Mapplewell, Sheffield and Halifax; DOBSON of Thornton (near Bradford); NEVILL(E) of Wigan, Lancs and Darton; MEGSON of Dewsbury; GARSIDE of Woolley and West Bretton. SCOTLAND: HENDRY of Who-knows-where-shire and Massachusetts, USA; HOUSTON of Lesmahagow and Glasgow and Massachusetts, USA; DEMPSTER of Lesmahagow; MEIKLE of Ayrshire, Hamilton, and Glasgow; COCHRAN of Hamilton.
Paradise: EVE and ADAM, also in exile
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