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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
New York City Immigrants (Austria, Galicia, Poland), 1890 -Dr. Howard M. Relles compiled this database from the National Archives microfilms of the record books in which the ships' passenger lists were recorded. This database contains the names of 44,000 persons who arrived in New York City from Austria, Galicia, and Poland, during 1890.
A Present from the Past: An Ellis Island Experience - The famous immigration port, Ellis Island, commands a sense of historical respect and reverence as individuals try to sense the sacrifice, adventure, anticipation, and fear that immigrants felt as they approached the end of a long and uncertain journey.
Search Ellis Island database Steve Morse's search engines on Jewish Gen (several different search engines including Finding Missing Manifests)
SS Bolivia 1883 Glasgow Scotland to NY SS BRITANNIC
June 9th arriving 1883
New York from Liverpool&Queenstown Ireland
SS California Hamburg to New York 1883
SS Cierfuegos Cierfuegos, St Tiago de Cuba, and Nassau to NY 1883 (graphic - slow to load)
SS City
of Mexico July 12, 1883
Vera Cruz & Havanna to New York
SS Anglia 1891 Italy to New York
Ship Scandia
806 passengers, Hamburg to New York, Arrival 26 March 1891
Alsatia Italy to New York 1891
City of Chester1891 Queenston Ireland to New York
S S Teutonic 1891 Queenston Ireland to NYC
S S Serva 1891 Queenston Ireland to New York
Friedrich Der Grosse Passenger list Bremen Germany to New York 1898 - over 500 names
SS Lucania Queenston, Ireland to New York 1898 *PARTIAL LIST ONLY
SS Lucania
- partial passenger list for voyage from Ireland to New York in
1898.
SS Alesia Naples To New York 1898
Alsatia Italy to New York 1898
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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