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If you don't find your ancestor on my ships' pages, try genealogy records on Ancestry.com. You can view them with a trial period free access. OliveTreeGenealogy.com free immigration databases are listed after the fee based databases below
To help you find your immigrant ancestor, I created search engines to search for passengers on ships to Maryland. These search dozens of Internet sites with FREE passenger lists, including ISTG (Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild). Search FREE WEBSITES or browse Olive Tree Genealogy ships and links to ships
Be sure to read my explanation of immigration and passenger lists for Maryland before you begin your search!
The major port of entry into Maryland was Baltimore. Most Baltimore passenger lists are on microfilm at the National Archives, the Maryland Historical Society, the Baltimore City Archives, and the Family History Library. Some immigrants arrived at Annapolis, Havre de Grace, Nottingham, and St. Mary's, but there are few existing records of these ports.
In 1660 English immigrants began settling the Eastern Shore (east of Chesapeake Bay) in Maryland. Almost all English immigrants came as indentured servants or convicts. By 1740, other immigrants were also settling western Maryland. Many were Germans who came via Philadelphia Pennsylvania but there were also Scottish, Dutch, Swedish, Huguenot and Acadians coming to the colony. Many blacks arrived as slave labour early in the 1600s.
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Ships Passenger Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Indexed CD with names of approximately 3,530,000 individuals who arrived in United States and Canadian ports. Or search online Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [$]
An index of over 2,500,000 names found in more than 2,500 published sources is:
Filby, P. William. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. Arrival information for approximately 3,530,000 individuals who arrived in United States and Canadian ports
Baltimore, 1820-1850 Ships Passenger Lists Baltimore, 1851-1872 Ships Passenger Lists
A comprehensive list of about 140,000 immigrants to America from Britain is:
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607–1776 and Emigrants in Bondage, 1614–17 by Coldham, Peter Wilson.
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 It includes New Hampshire immigrants and may show the British hometown, emigration date, ship, destination, and text of the document abstract.
Ship York carrying convicts from Newgate Prison in England to Maryland 1739
Ships Passenger Lists to Maryland 1747
Gildart Scottish prisoners leaving Liverpool arriving Port North, Potomack, Maryland 1747
Johnson Prisoners arriving Port Oxford Maryland 1747
Ships Passenger Lists to Maryland 1803
Ship Ardent for Baltimore Maryland from Londonerry 23 April 1803 Ship Serpent for Baltimore Maryland from Londonerry 30 April 1803
Ships Passenger Lists to Maryland 1804
Passengers on Board the American Ship Mechanic of Baltimore, Maryland Peter Thorn, Master, from Dublin Ireland to Baltimore, Maryland, 28 May, 1804
Passengers who have contracted to take their passage to Baltimore Maryland on board the Ship Serpent of Baltimore, burthen 280 tons, Arch'd McCorkell, master, sworn at the Custom House, Londonderry, 5 May, 1804.
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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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
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