{"id":18113,"date":"2012-04-09T22:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=18113"},"modified":"2012-04-09T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:43:33","slug":"ancestry-coms-200000-titanic-records-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=18113","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com&#8217;s 200,000 Titanic Records Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Sunday marks the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/titanic?cj=1&amp;netid=cj&amp;o_xid=0004887102&amp;o_lid=0004887102\" target=\"_blank\">Ancestry.com<\/a> recently opened a 200,000 records collection into the lives of the passengers, crew, and others associated with the Titanic. 1,517 people died when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the northern Atlantic. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/titanic?cj=1&amp;netid=cj&amp;o_xid=0004887102&amp;o_lid=0004887102\" target=\"_blank\">Ancestry.com&#8217;s<\/a> own words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Discover fascinating details about passengers and crew who sailed aboard the doomed ship in our new Titanic collection. From occupations, names and ages of those who bought a coveted ticket to death records and coroner\u2019s inquest files of those who lost their lives, you\u2019ll find a story both tragic and heroic. You might even find your own connection to the most famous maritime disaster in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the records, there is a section on the history of the ship and her devastating maiden voyage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/titanic?cj=1&amp;netid=cj&amp;o_xid=0004887102&amp;o_lid=0004887102\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18117\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Titanic Collection on Ancestry.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/titanic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/titanic.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/titanic-300x331.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Sunday marks the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Ancestry.com recently opened a 200,000 records collection into the lives of the passengers, crew, and others associated with the Titanic. 1,517 people died when the Titanic struck <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=18113\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Ancestry.com&#8217;s 200,000 Titanic Records Collection<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-british-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18118,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions\/18118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}