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Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num

Need Help with Shipping Research? See How to Find Shipping and Immigration Records in Australia, 2003 and my latest book (2010) How Did They Get Here? Arrivals after 1924. Click here for details.  

Ancestorsonboard.com database to Outward Passenger Lists for voyages departing the British Isles 1890-1960 for Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA. The free name search lists names, age, sex, departure year and port, destination port and county plus details of transcripts and images which are available for a fee. 

Ancestry.com. This commercial site offers access to the UK Incoming Passenger Lists 1878-1960. This collection is fully indexed with digital images available. It contains 16+ million names from the Board of Trade’s passenger lists of ships arriving in the United Kingdom from foreign ports outside of Europe and the Mediterranean from 1878-1888 and 1890-1960. Information listed may include: name of passenger, their birth date or age, occupation, port of departure, port of arrival, date of arrival, vessel name and from birth, occupation and, from 1922 onwards, intended UK address of each passenger. A variety of subscription options is available.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) has 11,000+ passenger list transcripts online. Most are to the USA but not all. The site includes lists of departures from the German ports of Altona, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Geestemunde, Hamburg, Stettin, Swinemunde (now Swinoujscie, Poland) plus unspecified ports. There is a link to World War II Refugees to Australia. See Online Indexes and Passenger Lists for details. Updated

Bremen Passenger Lists (1920-1939). A joint project by the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and the Bremen Staatsarchiv has indexed the surviving passenger lists. All lists from 1875-1908 older than 3 years were destroyed due to lack of space in the Bremen Archives. With the exception of 3017 passenger lists for the years 1920 - 1939 all other lists were lost in World War II. These surviving lists have been indexed and digitised. A searchable database of 690,952 entries and transcripts of the passenger lists are available online. This site offers several search options. Updated

Ancestry.com offers access to Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934 (gap 1915-1919). Digitised images of the passenger lists are available. Currently 1877-1914 have been electronically indexed though there is access to handwritten indexes 1855-1934. Both sets of records are in German. Some free indexes on offer include the Wuerttemberg, Germany Emigration Index (in English). It lists 60,000+ persons who applied at Wuerttemberg to leave Germany from the late 18th century to 1900. Brandenburg, Prussia Emigration Records (in German). A collection of government records relating to emigrants  from Brandenburg in the 19th century. Baden, Germany Emigration Index, 1866-1911 (in English) lists 28,000+ persons who left Baden. A variety of subscription options is available for access to a vast collection of worldwide databases, many relevant to shipping and immigration. Updated

The Castle Garden Database lists 10 million+ arrivals to the USA. Castle Garden, Manhattan, America's first immigration center (1830-1892) was succeeded by Ellis Island in 1892.

Ellis Island American Family Immigration History Center online database lists 25+ million arrivals to the USA (1892-1924). A search returns name, nationality, residence, arrival and departure details, age and marital status. Access to digital copies of the original passenger lists requires registration (free). Fees apply to purchase digital copies of the ship manifest or a photograph of the ship.

Massachusetts Archives - Boston Passenger Lists Online (1848-1891). This database, searchable by name or ship, and returns names, title, ship and date. Passenger manifest information available includes country of origin, age, occupation and other details.

BritishOrigins,  British and Irish Passenger Lists 1890 to the USA and Canada. Lists 194,000+ names, occupation, nationality, age, marital status plus ship,sailing date, departure and destination ports. There is a free name search and various subscription options are available.

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