Britons seek U.S. relations online
Britons can check if they are distantly related to Tom Cruise or Halle Berry with the help of a Web site which sheds light on the millions who migrated to the United States in search of a new life. 近日,英国一家名为“家谱”的网站提供了数百万移民美国者的详细资料。英国人可以通过网络查询自己是否和美国影星汤姆·克鲁斯或哈利·贝瑞有血缘关系。 Passenger lists from thousands of ships that left Britain and Ireland packed with migrants between 1820 and 1960 were published on a genealogy Internet site on Thursday. 1820年至1960年,数千艘满载着英国和爱尔兰移民的船只驶向美国。“家谱”网站提供的移民者名单中包括克鲁斯和贝瑞的祖先在内。 The ancestors of many famous Americans, including Hollywood actors Cruise and Berry, were among those who risked everything to make the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. 他们的祖先和当时其他移民者一样,克服千难万险横渡过大西洋。 New arrivals helped swell the U.S. population from 9.6 million in 1820 to 76 million by 1900. 1820年至1900年,新移民的加入让美国人口从960万激增到7600万。 Migrants left Britain and Ireland for many reasons -- to escape poverty and persecution, to join their families or to try to make their fortune. 政治迫害、贫困生活、寻找亲人或是撵取财富成了移民离开英国或爱尔兰的原因。 According to the site, Oscar-winner Berry‘s maternal grandmother was less than a year old in 1912 when she sailed on the "Merion" from the port of Liverpool, northwest England.In 1850, Cruise‘s great-great-grandfather Dylan Henry Mapother emigrated from the town of Flint, north Wales, to Louisville, Kentucky. “家谱”网站称,1912年,奥斯卡影后贝瑞的外祖母在还未满周岁时从英国西北部的利物浦港登上前往美国的“米里恩”号客船。1850年,好莱坞巨星克鲁斯的高曾祖父(曾祖父的父亲)从威尔士北部的弗林特镇移民至美国肯塔基州的路易(斯)维尔市。 Businessman Donald Trump has Scottish ancestry through his Gaelic-speaking mother, Mary, who set sail on the "Transylvania" in 1935. 此外,美国房地产大亨唐纳德·特朗普也有着苏格兰血统,其母玛丽于1935年乘坐“特兰西瓦尼亚”号从苏格兰来到美国。 Tales of unknown strangers falling in love and marrying at sea are also revealed. 网站同时还公布了那些在移民美国的途中由陌路人变成恋人、最后结为夫妻的乘客的传奇故事。 Among those who tied the knot were Longford Manderson, 28, and Sarah Chalker, 23, who fell in love aboard the "Prince Albert" in 1858. 1858年,28岁的曼德森和23岁的查克尔在“艾伯特王子”号上相爱并相伴一生的故事就是其中之一。 Ancestry.co.uk‘s database gives each migrant‘s name, age and job and their destination. Other details include the names of the family members travelling with them and who paid for their journey. “家谱”网站的数据库提供了每位移民者的姓名、年龄、工作和前往美国的目的。网站还提供了这些人的家人和旅行资助者的信息。 |