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SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS
SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS TO MARYLAND AFTER 1820
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
Maryland Ships Custom Search Engines 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
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. Customs Passenger Lists for Baltimore begin in 1820 but many are lost and/or missing. Some surviving lists from 1840- 1891 are in the Family History Centre Catalogue as FHL films 417383-432. Some missing passenger lists may be found by searching for Baltimore lists 1833-1866 which were copies of the original lists submitted by the ship master. Cargo manifests from 1820 to 1821 may also serve as passenger list substitutes.
See the list of Microfilm Reel Numbers for Passenger Lists to North America 1820 to 1957
Be sure to read my explanation of immigration and passenger lists for Maryland before you begin your search! Also check out these CDs
Search Ships Passenger Lists to Maryland before 1820
5-Step Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in North AmericaStep 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
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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