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Did you know that Immigration means To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native and that Emigration means To leave one country or region to settle in another
 Find your ancestor on 2,553 Olive Tree Genealogy FREE Ships Passenger Lists or Search over 8,000 ships passenger lists on websites like ISTG (Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild), TheShipsList.com, and more!
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* Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in Ports of Arrival
U.S.A. | Canada
| Australia & New Zealand | South
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* Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists Outbound from USA & Canada
* Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists by Year of Arrival
Ship Diligence 1763 To Boston from Glasgow
Nov. 15 1763, Ship Diligence from Glasgow Scotland to Boston Massachussetts
Charles Robison skipper
Robert Stevenson, merchant
Andrew Turner, merchant
William Burton, merchant
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5-Step Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in North America
Step
1: First
search for your immigrant ancestor in the five major ports of arrival
- New York New York,
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania,
Baltimore Maryland,
Boston
Massachusetts and
New Orleans Louisiana
Ships passenger lists marked  are free records on Olive Tree Genealogy. Ships Passenger Lists marked with  are not on Olive Tree Genealogy. After clicking on an off-site passenger list, use your browser's BACK button to return to Olive Tree Genealogy
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Step 2:
If you don't find your immigrant ancestor in a large port city, try smaller
ports of arrival - Virginia, Connecticut,
Delaware,
Texas, Georgia,
South
Carolina,
North Carolina, Maine, Rhode
Island,
Florida, New Jersey, New Hampshire,
Michigan, Alaska, California, Hawaii and Washington
Step 3:
Still can't find your immigrant ancestor on an American ships passenger list?
Try a
Canadian Port of Arrival and the
Canada-U.S.
border crossing records (Saint Albans Lists).
Step 4:
If you still can't find your ancestor in free ships passenger lists, try ships
passenger lists and naturalization records on a pay site. See the Immigration Comparison Chart to help you decide which of the fee-based sites has the passenger lists you need to find your immigrant ancestor
Step 5:
Search for ships passengers in Ethnic Groups immigrating to America, other miscellaneous
ports of arrival, Ships Passenger Lists
on NARA microfilm, J.J.
Cooke Shipping Agent Records, Castle
Garden New York Ships Passenger Lists 1855-1890, Ellis
Island New York Ships Passenger Lists 1894-1927 & Naturalization
Records
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