Find links to ships passenger lists on the Internet, as well as passport records, border crossings and other online immigration records.
Locate your immigrant ancestors in this collection of immigration databases, passenger lists, naturalization records, and other online immigration and naturalization resources.
Annotations were often added to passenger ship manifests at the time of arrival or later to clarify information, indicate a problem with an alien's status or to verify details in conjunction with an immigrant's application for citizenship. Learn what these passenger list annotations mean and how they provide clues about your immigrant ancestor.
Learn how to locate ancestors on ship passenger lists and manifests with this guide to passenger lists around the world. Includes what types of information you can expect to learn, locations and time periods for passenger lists and indexes, and links to online passenger lists.
A project of the Ellis Island Foundation containing the names of over 500,000 immigrants. Search the index online, reconnect with your own immigrant heritage and discover ways to honor your family for posterity.
The National Archives of Canada compiled this listing of approximately 15,000 immigrant settlers, mostly relating to immigrants from Great Britain arriving in Canada between 1801 and 1849.
National Archives of Ireland searchable database which covers the period 1788 to 1868.
Many emigration/immigration records available for online search, as well as listings of searches available for a fee. Sponsored by the Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies.
A large collection of online, searchable databases from the Digital Archives of Norway.
Over 500 volunteers have transcribed and/or linked to the passenger lists of over 3000 ships to date, with more added everyday. Visit "The Compass," a guide to further immigration research.
Ancestry.com has a large database of online immigration records including the huge Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. Some of these records are available only by paid subscription.
A complete list of every Mayflower passenger including a history and genealogy for each.
Mexican Records from the Port of Entry at Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, courtesy of the New Mexico Genealogical Society.
A list of online ships passenger lists, primarily into Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey ports, maintained by Donna Speer Ristenbatt.
One of the first genealogy websites to publish ship passenger lists on the Internet for free. Hundreds of lists available from the 1500's through the 1900's. This is a don't miss site!
A great page of passenger lists from the Island Register, a Web site devoted to genealogy and P.E.I..
This computerized listing of immigrants to Galveston includes a wealth of detailed information. Most Galveston records did not survive, so not all immigrants will be included in this database.
