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 1820-1954. Included is information about the Boston passenger lists missing from NARA's available microfilm records.

• Baltimore Passenger Lists Guide 1820-1950s

• Philadelphia Passenger Lists 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.

Passenger Departure Records (from the USA)

• U.S., Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1914-1966 (at Ancestry/fee-based) Note: most of the records in this database are for the mid 20th century. Some of the records in this database are for airplane departures from various cities in the US. For New York City, this database includes passenger and crew lists of vessels (ships) and some airplanes departing from New York, New York, 1948-1965.

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.
• The Hamburg Passenger Departure Records Research Guide [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 transcriptions of card indexes for Bremen passenger lists from 1907-1908 and 1913-1914 (also see the next item).
• Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1907-1908 and 1913-1914 from FamilySearch
• Stettin, Germany Passenger Records Information [on this website]
  A very small number of passengers emigrated from this port (today called Szczecin in Poland) to America in the 19th century.

• Holland-America Line Passenger Lists, 1900-1969 [on this website]
  Information about this little-known resource -- passenger departure records for the port of Rotterdam available from the Rotterdam City Archives.
• Emigrants from the Netherlands includes emigrants from the Netherlands, 1848-1878: and emigrants from South Holland, 1851-1900; from the National Archives of the Netherlands (Nationaal Archief)

• Norway, Police Emigration Lists, 1874-1961 (at Ancestry/fee-based)

• Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1951 (at Ancestry/fee-based) Includes place of origin and destination (often to the USA, but also other countries) for many of the emigrants.

Naturalization Records

Canadian Passenger Records

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