The Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter Database is a project of Professor Aubrey Newman and Dr. Graham Smith, both of the Department of History in University of Leicester, in the United Kingdom. Because many of the people that passed through the Shelter between the years of 1895 and 1914 came to South Africa, the project is of considerable potential interest to the South African Jewish community, and has been financially supported by the Kaplan Centre at the University of Cape Town. These records have been put on a computerised database held in the University of Leicester lead and supervised by Prof. Aubry Newman. Prof. Newman has agreed to accept e-mail queries regarding the people who might have stayed in the shelter. People going to the Americas arriving in the UK at Hull or any other east coast port usually went overland to Liverpool and hence did not pass in London and will most probably not be included in the database.
People heading to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand are more likely to be included.
There are inaccuracies and discrepancies in the database due to faulty historical entries, spelling mistakes and so on. C. Date of birth - this is entered in the database in the form of age. D. Place of origin - the region or Gubernia not villages and shtetels. G. Destination - if known H. Name of ship when leaving the UK and port of embarkation if known 5. I think the author called it the Lyman Shelter.