Emigration and Immigration Records and Resources

Passenger Arrival Records (USA)

• Port of New York, New York, Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1820-1957

• Finding Boston, Massachusetts Passenger Lists [on this website]
  A basic research outline for finding Boston passenger lists and their indexes from 1820-1943. Included is information about the 9 year gap (1874-1883) missing from NARA's available microfilm records.

• Baltimore Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1820-1950s

• Philadelphia Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1800-1948

• Finding Passenger Lists at the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana [on this website]
  A basic research outline for finding New Orleans passenger lists and their indexes for all time frames. Included are links to online databases and passenger lists.

• Finding Passenger Lists at the Port of Galveston, Texas [on this website]
  Many German immigrants arrived at the port of Galveston. This webpage has been set up to help deal with the difficulties of finding these records. Non-German immigrants are also included.

• For other ports see: US Ports of Arrival and their Available Passenger Records Includes many smaller ports; also includes infomation about Canadian and Mexican border crossing records.

• Finding New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957
• Also see the Boston Passenger Lists link above.

• Finding Passenger Records in the Family History Library Catalog [on this website]
  A guide that explains how to find passenger arrival records and their indexes in the FHL Catalog. You can order these records on microfilm at local LDS Family History Centers.

International Passenger Departure Records and Emigration Records

• Online International Ship Passenger Lists - Arrivals and Departures for Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and more [on this website]; Links to websites that have transcribed passenger lists and indexes on the Internet.

• Online German Emigration Indexes and Records [on this website]
  Links to websites that have transcribed German emigration lists on the Internet. Includes a brief discussion of how to find these kinds of records offline at the Family History Library.
• The Hamburg Passenger Departure Records [on this website]
  Information about the Hamburg, Germany passenger departure records -- how to research them online and off.
• Bremen Passenger Lists 1920-1939
  Most of the Bremen, Germany passenger departure records were destroyed. However, about 3000 lists survived for the period from 1920-1939. These have been transcribed and put online here. This database also includes some lists from 1907/1908 and 1913/1914
• Finding Passenger Records at the Port of Stettin, Germany [on this website]
  A very small number of passengers emigrated from this port (today called Szczecin in Poland) to America in the 19th century. This webpage gives an address you can write to for information about researching these lists.

• Holland-America Line Passenger Lists 1900-1940 [on this website]
  Information about this little known resource -- passenger departure records for the port of Rotterdam available on microfiche from the Family History Library.

• Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1951 (part of Ancestry's collection of world genealogy records - fee-based) Includes place of origin and destination (often to the USA, but also other countries) for many of the emigrants.

Naturalization Records

Ships and Ship Pictures

Canadian Passenger Records

• See the Canada section at: Online International Ship Passenger Lists