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This collection includes passenger manifestoes, border crossings from Canada to the USA, seafarer records and a lot more besides. As you'd expect, there's a very large contingent of Irish emigrants within the records.
If you don't already have an Ancestry account, you'll need to register for a guest account. You only need to give name and email address for one of these; Ancestry emails you a password and username. There's no signing up for a subscription, no parting with your credit card details and no need to cancel anything after the free weekend finishes.
The free access expires on Monday 7 September at 11:59 ET (Tuesday 8 Sept, 11:59 Dublin/UK).
Don't forget that access to Ancestry.com's new 170million strong Wills and Probate collection is also free this weekend (see previous blogpost). Could be a busy few days for a lot of us!
(Thanks to John Reid of Anglo-Celtic-Connections for the heads up about the Canadian records.)