Gjenvick.com Display historical documents from WWI and WWII.
About Gjenvick.com
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Major Collections at the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives
- Cunard Steamship started as British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. For over a century and a half Cunard successfully operated and dominated the Atlantic passenger routes becoming one of the most recognized companies of its era. Gjenvick Archives holds a huge collection on Cunard including Passenger Lists, Vintage Travel Brochures, Historical Steamship Tickets, Publications, Menus, Articles, Postcards, Photographs, and more.
- Hamburg-American Line was one of the major steamship companies to handle immigrant trade. The main attraction amongst enthusiasts for collecting material from this shipping line is the beautifully attractive artwork on their passenger lists rather than their historical value.
- The Norddeutscher Lloyd or the North German Lloyd Steamship Company was one of the major German passenger and cargo transport companies of its time on the North Atlantic Ocean. Archives on them include Passenger Lists, Vintage Travel Brochures, Menus, Photographs and more.
- White Star Line, a British passenger transport company, is perhaps best known for its ill fated flagship Titanic. You can see Passenger Lists, Vintage Travel Brochures, Photographs and a special section on the R.M.S. Titanic memorabilia.
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History of Gjenvick
Paul initially set out to make a family genealogy site around Gjenvick and Gjønvik however it quickly grew into something bigger where historians, librarians, students, enthusiasts, families from all around the world started consulting his website to rediscover information.
Primarily and foremost it provides a vast collection of passenger lists – souvenirs of voyages that brought immigrants and socialites across the ocean from the 1880s through the 1950s. The Archives have assisted movie production companies, authors and historians with high-resolution images and additional information.
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The founder of the Archives, Paul Ament-Gjenvick, originally named the archives "The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Family History Center" and included the family history of the Gjenvick's in the United States and Gjønvik in Scandinavia. Gjenvick is the original but incorrect translation of Gjønvik - a unique Norwegian name that first appeared in the late 1800s. In 2003, the name was shortened to the "Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives" to represent the family that started the archives. The family history section pertaining to the Gjenvick-Gjønvik family has since been removed and is currently being researched by various family members in Upper Midwestern US. The actual documents that comprise the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives are kept in archival safe, controlled environmental storage in locations around the United States (Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Seattle and Atlanta) and in Trondheim, Norway. | |||
About Paul Ament-Gjenvick
Paul is the founder of the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives and the Archivist and curator for its many collections. He is a collector of maritime documents and is often called upon to identify and evaluate items from private collections. He received his Bachelors Degree in Accounting from Minnesota State University and received training in handling archival documents as a volunteer at the National Archives branch at Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Clayton State University with a Master of Archival Studies degree in 2013.
Paul is also the webmaster for the Archives and received his information technology training from Fortune 100 firms including Georgia-Pacific, Delta Air Lines, Cingular Wireless and MCI/Verizon Business.
Paul's wife, Vanessa Ament-Gjenvick, is Communications Director at the Archives. She is also pursuing her Ph.D. at Georgia State University. Paul, and Vanessa make their home near Atlanta, Georgia.
Archival Collection
Currently the website offers archives in the following categories:
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- See details on these categories here.
Languages
English
Most documents that have been uploaded have an English translation provided however you may find documents in German, French, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
Contact Information
- Paul Ament-Gjenvick (Gjenvick.com)
- An Ament-Gjenvick Group Website
- Email:
- Office Phone: +1 770.241.4722
- Talk: Contact Paul Ament-Gjenvick on AboutUs
Address
Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives
- Atlanta, Georgia USA
Additional Information
Books by the Archives
Crossing the Pond
A Journey Through The Covers
An eBook of illustrations from the best passenger lists and vintage travel
brochures that provide memories of the steamship voyages from the 1880s
through the 1950s. Incredible and elegant artwork was the standard in the
early years of steamship travel. Compiled and Edited with a Forward by Paul
Ament-Gjenvick, Archivist and Curator of the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives.
Web Awards
Gjenvick.com is an award winning website which has won the endorsement of several associations on the web in recognition of the website's design, content, ease of use and on adding a great unique resource to the web. You can see their awards here.
2008-05 - American Association Of Webmasters Silver Award
2008-05 - Vintage Kin Red Ribbon Award
2008-03 The Maritime Web Awards NON-EUROPEAN WINNERS
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