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Passenger Arrival Records - National Archives

The National Archives has passenger arrival records, sometimes called ship passenger lists, for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between ...

Passenger Lists - Ancestry

Passenger lists are typically used by family historians to document their immigrant ancestor's trip to their new country, but don't overlook the possibility of ...

Passenger Search | Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island

Some passenger records are more complete than others, but many reveal name, age, date of arrival, ship name, nationality, birthplace, occupation, last residence ...

US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records - FamilySearch

The National Archives (NARA) has immigration records for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and 1982.

Immigration Records | National Archives

Use Form NATF 81or order online to obtain copies of inbound federal passenger arrival manifests for ships and airplanes, 1820-1959. Passenger ...

Immigration by Passenger Ship Research Guide

The National Archives has passenger arrival records for those who came to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and December 1982.

Finding Ship Passenger Lists & Immigration Records 1820-1960s

This is a list of indexes of passenger lists (also called immigration records or ship manifests) for ships that sailed to the United States from 1820 to the ...

U.S. Passenger Lists - Ancestry

Passenger lists document who was on a ship, where they came from and more. Make sure to keep your search broad since immigrants didn't always depart from their ...

Heritage Documents | Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island

The ship companies that transported these passengers kept detailed passenger lists, called “Ship Manifests” which were used to examine immigrants upon arrival ...

Guide to Immigration Records and Ship's Passenger Lists-Section 4.0

If you find your ancestor's name in the indexes, the date and the ship name and other information is generally listed. Then, go to the NARA (or LDS) passenger ...

Ship and Passenger Lists: Home - LibGuides

HSP's collection is rich in information regarding passengers and immigrants to America. Types of records include manuscripts such as original ship manifests.

Ships Passenger Lists - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Ships' Passenger Lists. The Pennsylvania State Archives maintains official ships' passenger lists on digitized microfilm (Record Group-26), recording the ...

Passengers - The National Archives

Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common. No air passenger lists have survived. For records of ...

Finding New York Passenger Lists (Immigration Records) 1820-1957

Many refugees arrived on commercial ships and should be listed on the passenger lists for those ships. You also may be able to obtain the A-File (Alien File) of ...

How to find passenger lists for ships

Simon Wills explains where to find online passenger list collections for ancestors who travelled overseas.

Ship Passenger Lists and Records Online - German Roots

Transcription of the passenger list for the SS Rotterdam which sailed from Rotterdam to New York, arriving on 27 May 1887 with 485 passengers from Germany, ...

Passenger lists - The National Archives

You can search and download lists of ships' passengers entering and leaving the United Kingdom from and for ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean.

Passenger Lists, 1865-1922 - Library and Archives Canada

The Records · the name of the ship · its port(s) and date(s) of departure · its port(s) and date(s) of arrival in Canada · the name, age, sex, ...

New Orleans Ship Passenger List Online Index

The Research Library has microfilm copies of the ship passenger lists for New Orleans for the period of 1820 to 1903 (Accession No. P1990-022) and 1903 to 1921 ...

Ship Passenger Lists & Immigration Records

Research guides for locating ship passenger lists and records for U.S. arrivals.