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Genealogy Ideas
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Don't wait to fast track your genealogy with a DNA test. Contact others sharing your ancestry, learn where your ancestors originated.
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Genealogy Spotlight
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 Don't miss UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 These include ships outbound from Canadian ports of departure! Start your journey with a Free Trial to
Ancestry.com
* Search for ancestors in Newspapers 1690-1980 , Historical Books 1801 - 1900, Historical Documents 1789 - 1980, America's Obituaries 1977 to current, and Social Security Death Index 1937 to current
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SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS
SHIPS TO NEW NETHERLAND/NEW YORK 1700-1799
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
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What's Available in New York Immigration Records
includes immigration and naturalizations records such as
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Passenger & Immigration Lists Index
Early American Immigrations
Passenger Arrivals in the U.S., 1819-1920
Ship Passenger Lists from Ireland to America
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Irish Immigrants: New York Port Arrival Records, 1846-1851
New York City Immigrants (Austria, Galicia, Poland), 1890
Ship Passenger Lists to New York
New York Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-1924
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Brick Wall Ancestors? If the date of arrival is known, you can
read the arrival report in a New York newspaper.
The New York Times is available at many libraries (publication began in September, 1851). You can also search the NY Times online! Search
1857-1880 or
1881-1906 These off-site pay databases can be used with this special free access
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New York Ships Custom Search Engines Search dozens of Internet sites with FREE passenger lists, including ISTG (Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild). Or browse Olive Tree Genealogy ships and links to ships below
Immigrant Processing Stations at the Port of New York
1624-31 July 1855: no receiving station
1 Aug. 1855-18 Apr. 1890: Castle Garden
19 Apr. 1890-31 Dec. 1891: Barge Office |
1 Jan. 1892-14 june 1897: Ellis Island
15 June 1897-16 Dec. 1900: Barge Office
17 Dec. 1900-1924: Ellis Island |
Denization (Naturalization) of Palatines German refugees in England waiting to come to New York 1708
For a list of Palatines sailing 1709 from Germany to the Hudson River (New Jersey, New York)and later to the Mohawk Valley of New York on ships to New York 1709 seeThe Simmendinger Register Surnames A-L and The Simmendinger Register Surnames M-Z
Ships Passenger Lists to New York 1774
The Gale from Scotland to New York, May 16 1774
Ships Passenger Lists to New York 1775
The Commerce passengers from Broad Albion, Perthshire, from Port Greenock Scotland to New York July 9, 1775
Ships Passenger Lists to New York 1799
Passengers on Board the Ship Fair American arriving New York from England 1799
 Looking for other USA records? See USA GENEALOGY for searchable genealogy databases
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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
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
FIND
YOUR ANCESTOR IN FREE SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS TO USA
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Search Passport Applications, 1795-1905 Find out an ancestor's citizenship, residence, and character plus family members, date and place of birth, naturalization location and date, occupation, and physical characteristics
Search Naturalization Records from National Archives on Footnote.com. Find the ship name, year of arrival, ancestor's place of birth and more
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