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by Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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Ships sailing to Connecticut, Maine, Massachussets, New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Vermont are listed below. Because the name "Virginia" was a catch-all phrase and could include parts of New England in the early 1600s, I have also included ships to Virginia from 1620-1640. Click on their links to see the list of passenger names
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
In 1630 John Winthrop organized a fleet of 11 ships to carry immigrants from England to America. Departing in two groups in April and May, they arrived at various dates in June and July. These ships were:The Ambrose; The Arbella; The Charles; The Hopewell; The Jewel; The Mayflower; The Success; The Talbot ; The Trial; The Whale; The William & Francis Winthrop Fleet Large list of names of passengers to New England 1630 on board all ships listed above
No Ship Name 106 persons from Weymouth to New England 1636
1637
Hector England to Massachussets 1637 John & Dorothy 1637 Ipswich to Boston Massachusetts, William Andrews, Master The Rose 1637 Ipswich to Boston Massachusetts, William Andrews Jr., Master
Irish Immigrants to New England (1762-1769) - Irish
Immigrants to New England - Extracts from the Minutes of the
Selectmen of the Town of Boston, Mass. Extracted from The
Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Volume
XIII, 1914.[$]
Ship Stirling Castle from Greenock Scotland to Boston Massachusetts Apr. 16, 1766 Snow Jenny from Glasgow Scotland to Boston Massachusetts Oct. 31, 1766 (no ship name) 1766 Ireland to Boston, Mass
(no ship name) 1766 Ireland to Boston, Mass
The William 1766 Ireland to Boston, Mass
Irish Immigrants in Eighteenth Century (1773-1775) -
Irish Immigrants from English Ports in the Eighteenth
Century. Extracted from The Journal of the American Irish
Historical Society, Volume XVIII, 1919. Original source was
New England Historic-Genealogical Society Register (Vols. 62
to 66) compilation by George Fothergill of London.[$]
Passengers Engaged to Sail on Board the American Brig Atlantic, Robert Askins, Master burden 196 tone, for Boston, Massachusetts Sworn at Dublin Ireland 19 June 1804.
1811
Mariner from Londonderry, arrived at New-London, Connecticut 21 December, 1811.
1816
Juno Sligo Ireland to New London Connecticut, passengers transferred to the Ship McDonough and on to New York 1816
1847
Brig Catherine Mary Bermuda to Boston, Massachusetts 22 February 1847
Anglo American A.H. Brown, Captain - partial list for passengers from Liverpool to Boston, arriving 3 April, 1848.
Libra8 May 1848 Rotterdam to Boston
Libra8 May 1848 Rotterdam to Boston
John Bell departed New Ross on 31st. March and arrived Boston 14th. May 1849.
Tarifa Glasgow to Boston 1869 (606 names!)
1887
SS Hibernian Glasgow Scotland to Boston 1896
RMS Republic foundered at sea January 24, 1909, 50 miles south of
Nantucket Island
SS Evelyn
Cape Verde Islands, Portugal to New Bedford, MA April 1, 1913
(graphics, slow to load)
SS Canopic Naples Italy to Boston Mass. Dec.17, 1917
SS Cretic
Naples to Boston, MA Oct. 26, 1917
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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