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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
Passenger & Immigration Lists Index
Early American Immigrations
Passenger Arrivals in the U.S., 1819-1920
Ship Passenger Lists from Ireland to America
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
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
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
Ships Passenger List of Ship Young Phoenix Sailing for New York from England before January 1825
Partial Passenger List of Ship Comet Sailing for New York from Havre France July 28, 1825 Ships Passenger List of Ship Schuykill Sailing for New York from Cork Ireland before August 1825 Ships Passenger List of Ship William Sailing for New York from Cork Ireland 21 May 1825 ISTG has ships passenger lists for
Acasta 1825 England to NY; Bordeaux Alvarado to NY; Carolina Ann Belfast to NY ; Charles Miller France to NY; Circassian Havana Cuba to NY; Clarice St Croix to NY
; Colosuss England to NY
; Columbus Antwerp Belgium to NY
; Combine Ireland to Nfld to NY
; Commerce Puerto Rico to NY
; Courrier Newry Ireland to NY
; Desdemona France to NY
; Edward Bonaffee Havre France to NY
; Emblem Glasgow Scotland to NY
; Emma Cuba to NY
; Evalina Havan Cuba to NY
; Frances Jamaica to NY
; Franklin St Andrews to NY
; Friends Greenock Scotland to NY
The History and Passenger List of the Ship Bowditch, Liverpool to NY, May 27, 1839 The Amistad - 28 June 1839 from Havana to Cuba with 54 slaves. Full Text of the 1841 US Supreme Court Decision regarding the uprising by Africans aboard the schooner AMISTAD. In August of 1839, the Amistad was seized off Long Island, NY, by the U.S. brig Washington. The Spaniards were freed and the Africans were imprisoned in New Haven and Hartford Connecticut. All 54 names of slaves are given here
Ships Passenger Lists to New York 1840
Tay August
1840 passenger list, Greenock, Scotland to New York
The Southerner Rotterdam to New York 1846
macatawa.org has passenger lists for the ship Wakema
19 November 1846 Rotterdam to New York; De Brig Hollander 14 July 1846 uknown port to New York; Southerner Netherlands to New York 1846 - eventual stop for many was Michigan; Isabella Bath Netherlands to New York 1846, carrying some bound for the Holland Colony in Michigan
Ships Passenger Lists to New York 1847
Oudubon
11 October 1847 Rotterdam and London to New York
The Ashburton Liverpool to New York 1847
macatawa.org has passenger lists for the ship
Vestra Rotterdam to New York 1847; Albatross 1847 Netherlands to New York; Fanie
7 January 1847 Rotterdam to New York; Proteus 27 April 1847 Amsterdam to New York; Bavaria 23 September 1847 Havre, France to New York; Yssel
27 April 1847 Rotterdam to New York; Oneida 25 October 1847 Havre France to New York; France 26 October 1847 Rotterdam to New York
; Robert
Parker 27 September 1847 Havre France to New York
; America 1847 Netherlands to New York
; Princess Sophia 1847 Netherlands to New York
; Wilhelm von Wolgast Antwerp to New York 1847
; Dank Caasliest 1847 Rotterdam to New York
; Centurion 1847 Rotterdam to New York
; Doggerbank 1847 Amsterdam, Netherlands to New York
; Erasmus 1847 Rotterdam to New York
; Nederwaard 1847 Rotterdam to New York
; Sabina 1847 Netherlands to New York
; Antoinette Marie Rotterdam to New York 1847 - final destination the Holland Colony Michigan
; Kroonprinz von Hanover Antwerp to New York 1847 -- then on to Zeeland Michigan
St. George Liverpool to New York 1847 *PARTIAL LIST ONLY
Prince De Joinville - Liverpool England to NYC 1847
Ships Passenger Lists to New York 1848
Richard Cobden 1848 Liverpool to New York (Irish passengers) macatawa.org has passenger lists for the ship General
Harrison 24 November 1848 Rotterdam to New York
; Wichelhausen 11 May 1848 uknown port to New York
; Louvre
5 July 1848 New London and Rotterdam to New York
; Angelique
29 May 1848 Amsterdam to New York
; Garonne
27 September 1848 Rotterdam to New York
; Katherine
Jackson 17 May 1848 Amsterdam to New York
; Scandia
29 May 1848 Netherlands to New York
; Scandia
29 May 1848 Netherlands to New York (part 2)
; arraganset
21 July 1848 Havre-de-Grace to New York
; Amicitia
18 May 1848 Rotterdam to New York
St. Nicholas Jan 5, 1848 Havre to New York
Ship Toronto 5 Jan 1848
London to New York
Ship West Point
7 March 1848 Liverpool to New York
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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