Immigration: Overseas
Indexes and Passenger Lists
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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 (BT27). The free name
search lists names, age, sex, departure year and port, destination port and
country 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 (BT26)
passenger lists of ships arriving in the United Kingdom from foreign ports
outside of Europe and the Mediterranean, 1878-1888 and 1890-1960. Information
listed may include: name of passenger, birth date or age, occupation, port of
departure and arrival, date of arrival, vessel name and from 1922 onwards,
intended UK address of each passenger. A variety of subscription options are
available.
FamilySearch by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. This site features free, searchable Historical
Record Collections. The record collections for Australia and New Zealand include:
• Immigration Passenger Lists,
1855-1973
These passenger lists include immigrants
arriving mostly from the British Isles, and also from Western Europe, Asia, and
Polynesia. These records are indexed and linked to images of the original
passenger lists. This is an ongoing project with data being added as it becomes
available.
Immigrant
Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) has 12,000+ 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.
Bremen Passenger Lists
(1920-1939)
is a joint project by the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
and the Bremen Staatsarchiv. All passenger lists, 1875-1908, were destroyed due to lack of
space in the Bremen Archives. All the other lists were lost in World War II,
except 3017 lists for 1920-1939. These lists have been indexed and digitised. A searchable
database of 690,952 entries and transcripts of the passenger lists are
online for free. This site offers several search options Many of the
passenger lists are linked to photos of the ship plus historical details about
the ship.
German
Roots by Joe Beine - German Emigration Records, Lists and Indexes. This site
lists online resources for Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse (Hessen),
Mecklenburg, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz,
Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen (Thuringia) plus a general and
miscellaneous category.
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.
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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