Crew and Settler manifest

The Crew and Settler manifest is a document that every Colonist Ark carried containing the names of the crewmembers with their duty stations as well as the names of all adults on board the Ark grouped by families.

Many arks did not list minors by name, instead it would list the adult members of a family and add the number of children and infants. That created problems when later generations tried to trace their family tree back to Earth.