Deeds, letters, wills, legal decisions, sermons, army orders, ships' manifests and logs.

Seen on a computer screen, the ship manifests are prosaic documents: page after page, column after column of names, ages and other dry particulars.

The original ships manifests and transcriptions list them as Boschung, but the spelling was changed in their American lives.

The use of town, county, state and emigration records, computerized systems, ships' manifests, census tracts and church records may be harder to come by, but Mr. Newell has made use of all of them.

An email to one of the characters in the game mentions that the ship, instead of turning invisible, "briefly manifested in a future state for approximately 18 minutes."

Bylandt attempted to avoid the engagement by offering the ships' manifests, but when Fielding insisted on a physical inspection, Bylandt put up a brief show of force, before striking his colours.

The choice of plants was based on a careful sifting of historical records, contemporary correspondence and ships' manifests.

Some 12,000 Mormon volunteers also helped record the ship manifests of Ellis Island immigrants, giving rise to another popular genealogical site, EllisIsland.org.

Their story, from Spain to here, has been pieced together from sources like ship manifests, birth and marriage records, even rolls of Spanish military recruits.

It had all the data on Legis to work with, and the pilgrimage ships' manifests were recorded in great detail by the Apparatus, the subjective age of every elevated subject carefully watched in order to maintain the ruse.