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Didn't find your ancestor on my free ships' passenger lists? Search Ships Passenger Lists To Louisiana on a trial period free access to Ancestry.com. Their Louisiana Immigration Records includes immigration and naturalizations records such as
Louisiana State Database, Louisiana Land Grants, New Orleans, 1820-1850 Passenger Lists, Louisiana Marriages to 1850, Louisiana Census, 1810-1930, Louisiana City Parish Index
Don't miss Ships Arriving in Louisiana Find out what's available to find ancestors on ships arriving in Louisiana.
Pre-statehood settlers of Louisiana generally came from eastern Canada, France, Germany, the West Indies, Spain, and Africa. During the Revolutionary War many other immigrants arrived from the Atlantic states. When the territory was formed, large numbers of Americans from southern Ohio moved to this new acquisition.
The Irish were the largest immigrant group in Louisiana during the nineteenth century. They settled mainly during the 1840s and 1850s. Large numbers of Germans arrived in two waves, one just after 1810 and the second between 1840 and 1860. Small numbers of Scandinavians came in the 1820s. Some Mexicans settled here in the 1830s. Later immigrant groups included Italians, Hungarians, and Slavs.
Records and histories of ethnic groups in Louisiana, including Acadians, Cajuns ,Blacks, Canary Islanders, Chinese, Creoles French, Germans, and Yugoslavs can be found at NARA. The major port of entry to Louisiana has been New Orleans.
NARA also has five of the six volumes of Passenger Lists . . . Port of New Orleans. These are typescripts of lists from some years between 1813 and 1867. Each volume contains an index.
Until January 1, 1820, the U.S. Federal Government did not require require captains or masters of vessels to present a passenger list to U.S. officials. Thus, as a general rule, NARA does not have passenger lists of vessels arriving before January 1, 1820. However, arrivals at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1813-1819, are reproduced in NARA microfilm publication Roll 1 of M2009, Work Projects Administration Transcript of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1813-1849 (2 rolls). Details of NARA & FHC film numbers
NEW as of May 2005
Ship June Anni Bordeaux France to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Ship Missouri Bordeaux France to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Brig Commerce London England to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Brig Monitor Port of Port au Prince Haiti to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Schooner Cadmus Port au Prince Haiti to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Schooner Brisk Campeche Mexico to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Schooner Thorn Campeche Mexico to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Schooner Atheman Port of Pensacola FLorida to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Schooner Mary & Sally Port of Pensacola FLorida to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Brig Alexander Dublin Ireland to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Brig Mary Ann Port of Havana Cuba to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Brig Gustave Port of Martinez, California to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Galliote Fortuna Bremen Germany to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Schooner Brutus Port of Havana, Cuba, to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
NEW! As of March 2005 Hero 3 January 1820 Havana to New Orleans
Brig Planter Amsterdam Holland to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Willam & John St. Domingo to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Thomas Gordon Amsterdam to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Junius Puerto Rico to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Hero Havana to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Forest Havana to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Johanna Catharine Amsterdam to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Isabella St. Thomas to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Atalante Nantz to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Esperance (L'esperance?) Bordeaux France to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Alexandre Havre France to New Orleans Louisiana 1820
Johanna Catharine 14 January 1820 Amsterdam to New Orleans
Junius Puerto Rico to New Orleans 10 January 1820
L'Esperance Bordeaux France to New Orleans 10 January 1820
28, 633 Passengers on 281 ships to New Orleans from Jan to July 1851 (*WARNING! 3.8 KB file!) This index fills in part of the missing 2 years from the indexes on microfilm and has been made possible by the efforts of Le Comité
des Archives de la Louisiane and several volunteers - Jane
Aprill, CGRS, Donna Johnston, Ranson Lege, Margie
Luke, Agnes-Loretta Porche-Wyatt, Judy Riffel and State
Archives staff. (Details at the Louisiana State
Archives)
Ships Passenger Lists to Louisiana 1852
Italy 28 Scandanavian Mormons to New Orleans, Louisiana 1852
Benjamin Adams Liverpool to New Orleans in 1854
with 384 Scandinavian Saints on board
Jesse Munn 335 Scandinavian and German Latter-day Saints sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans, Louisiana 1854
Naturalization Records are a great way to find an ancestor's arrival year and ship name!
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 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
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