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Where to Find Passenger Lists
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Major record offices, archives and other repositories of immigration and emigration records around the world. Many include online guides and lists of their holdings plus instructions on how to access them.

Australia - National Library
A select bibliography of resources on ships and shipping in the National Library of Australia.

National Archives of Canada
Passenger lists, border entry records, home children and other immigration records in the custody of the National Archives of Canada.

Public Record Office - London, England
Guides to the PRO records of emigrants, passenger lists, convict records and passport records.

Public Record Office - Northern Ireland
Browse records of emigrants from Ireland to Canada, the United States, and Australia.

United States - National Archives & Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has immigration records for various ports for the years 1800-1959.

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