Selected Passenger Genealogical Resources

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B116c

Baca, Leo. Czech Immigration Passenger Lists. Halletsville, Tex.: Old Homestead Pub. Co., c1983.

Primarily discusses Czech and Moravian immigrants into the ports of New Orleans and Galveston Texas.

929.11
S557
v.1

Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: National and New England (1600-1825). Newhall, California, 1977.

929.11
S557
v.2

Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: New York and New Jersey (1600-1825). Newhall, California, 1978.

929.11
S557
v.3

Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: The South (1538-1825). Newhall, California, 1979.

929.11
S557
v.4

Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: Pennsylvania and Delaware (1641-1825). Newhall, California, 1980.

974.8
B954m

Burgert, Annette K. Master Index to the Emigrants Documented in the Published Works of Annette K. Burgert, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P. Myerstown, PA.: AKB Publications, 2000.

Includes surname and given name of emigrant year of emigration to the United States, and keyword to one of Burgert's other sources.

974.8
B954p

Burgert, Annette Kunselman. Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers. Myerstown, PA: AKB Publications, 2000.

Seeks to identify the European village of origin of Colonial Pennsylvania German Immigrants through 18^th century German resources and Pennsylvania church records.

929.11
C688b

Coldham, Peter Wilson. Bonded Passengers to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983.

929.11
C688br

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988

929.11
C688c

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988.

929.122
D635di

Dobson, David. Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984.

929.121
F198f

The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983.

The records list Irish passengers by name, ship and date of arrival.

929.11
P287f

Filby, P. William, Passenger and Immigration List Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of 300,000 Passengers Who Came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. Detroit, Mich.:

This volume is a preliminary edition containing about 75,000 names. This is a compilation of published passenger lists, not passenger lists on microfilm.

929.11
P287fi

Filby, P. William, Passenger and Immigration List Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of 500,000 Passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth centuries. (3 volumes, plus annual supplements), Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., c1981.

This is a compilation of published passenger lists, not passenger lists on microfilm. You will need to check each supplement individually. The printed numbered bibliography is at the beginning of each volume.

929.13
G373t

Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources, 1988.

Derived from original ship manifest schedules in chronological order by date of 
arrival. The original set is from January 2, 1850-June 17, 1897.

There is an index of names in every volume, look in the volume in the range of
years the immigrant would have arrived. Information on ship and village may be
given.

929.13
G373ta

Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports in the 1840's. Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources, c2002.

Derived from original ship manifest schedules in chronological order by date of arrival. The records in this set begin in the 1840s.

There is an index of names in every volume, look in the volume in the range of years the immigrant would have arrived. Information on ship and village may be given.

929.102
M547ha

Index to Mennonite Immigrants on United States Passenger Lists, 1872-1904. North Newton, Kan.: Mennonite Library and Archives, 1986.

Includes names, age and occupation of Mennonite arrivals. Also contains chronological list of ships.

929.15
I88

Italians to America: Lists Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports 1880-1899. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1992.

There is an index of names in every volume, look n the volume in the range of years the immigrant would have arrived. Information on ship and village may be given.

974.7
J774e

Jones, Henry Z., Even More Palatine Families: 18^th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian origins. Rockport, ME.: Picton Press, c2002.

974.7
J774m

Jones, Henry Z. More Palatine Families: Some Immigrants to the Middle Colonies 1717-1776 and their European Origins Plus New Discoveries on German Families who Arrived in Colonial new York in 1710. Universal City, CA.: H.Z. Jones, 1991.

Lancour, Harold. Lists of Ships Coming to North America, 1607-1825. 

Extracted from New York Public Library Bulletin, May 1937

16.929
L251p
1988

Lancour, Harold. Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography 1538-1900: Being a Guide to Published Lists of Arrivals in the United States and Canada. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., c1988

929.1385
M636r

Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1995.

Derived from original ship manifest schedules in chronological order by date of arrival. Covers the period from January 1875 June 1891. In the same format as Germans to America.

929.11
M889
1979

Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals for the Years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the years 1904 to 1926 at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore. Baltimore: Genealogical  Pub. Co., 1979.

929.182
O52sw
1979b

Olsson, Nils William. Swedish Passenger Arrivals in U.S. Ports 1820-1850 (except New York): With Additions and Corrections to Swedish Passenger Arrivals in New York 1820-1850. Saint Paul, Minn.: North Central Pub. Co., 1979.

929.11
R225s

Rasmussen, Louis J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists. Colma, Calif.: San Francisco Historic Record & Genealogy: Bulletin, 1965.

974.8
S897p
1992

Strassburger, Ralph Beaver. Pennsylvania German pioneers: A publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Springfield, VA: Genealogical Books in Print, 1992.

929.11
T314a
1993

Tepper, Michael. American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail or Steam. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993.

Discusses the content of colonial, early federal, and customs passenger lists.

974.8
T314e

Tepper, Michael, Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the Pennsylvania magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1975.

929.11
T314p

Tepper, Michael. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834: From Customs Passenger Lists. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982.

929.11
P287p

Tepper, Michael. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819: The Philadelphia (baggage list). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.,  1987.

Precedes regular passenger lists. Cargo inventories are where passengers are  
listed.

929.11
U58L

U.S. Department of State. Passenger Arrivals, 1819-1920: A Transcript of the List of Passengers Who Arrived in the United States from the 1, October, 1819, to the 30, September, 1820, with an added index. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967.

929.11
A59s

Anita, Michael J. Ships of our Ancestors. Menominee, Mich.: Ships of our Ancestors Inc., 1983.

Descriptive information about ships.

929.11
C698t
1993

Colletta, John Philip. They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, c1993.

Discusses all types of immigration emigration sources, plus alternative resources.

CastleGarden 

Americas first immigration center, 12 million immigrants passed through Castle Garden from 1820-1892, when Ellis Island opened.

Ellis Island

Searchable database of passengers and crew members who entered through Ellis Island, and the Port of New York 1892-1954.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

A vast array of ship passenger lists form various time periods, and destinations.

Library of Congress: Immigrant Arrivals A Guide to Published Sources

An online guide to help individuals effectively understand and use published sources relating to immigrants.

The Ships List Home Page

Immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, and passenger lists.

Steamship Historical Society of America Photograph Collection

An online collection of photographs of passenger liners and other vessels dating from the mid-1800s.

What Passenger Lists Are Online?

Online Passenger Lists. Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records & Indexes

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Index (Soundex) to City Passenger Lists of Baltimore, 1833-1866

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Index (Soundex) to Federal Passenger Lists of Baltimore, 1820-1897

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Index to Passengers Arriving at Philadelphia, 1800-1906

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Index to Passenger Lists Boston, 1848-1891, 1902-1906

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Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1847-1897

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Quarterly Abstracts of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, 1820-1875

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Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic & Gulf Coast Ports (excluding NY) 1820-1874