Immigration: Overseas
Indexes and Passenger Lists
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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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