Ship Passenger Lists

Find Records of Your Ancestors in Ship Passenger Lists

If you are looking for proof of your ancestors on ship passenger lists, searching these databases should be your first step. The ship passneger lists mentioned below contain over 30 million names of passengers leaving and coming to hundreds of port cities in dozens of countries. There is a good chance you will find your ancestor in one of these ship passenger list databases:

Immigrant Ships Transcribers
Guild Collection

An impressive collection of over 9,000 passenger lists from the 1600s through the 1900s.

The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Collection contains ship passenger lists from dozens of ports of arrival and departure in over 30 countries. Here is just a small sample:

New York immigrants from Austria, Galicia and Poland
WII refugees to Australia
Irish to Argentina
passengers arriving and departing Halifax, Nova Scotia between 1851 and 1872
German Departures

Search 1,300,642 names ť

Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records

The Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records contains details for more than 24 million passengers and crew who arrived from ships through the Port of New York at Ellis Island between January 1, 1892 and December 31, 1924.

The Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records includes information on immigrants sailing from nations such as:

England
Ireland
Germany
the Scandinavian countries

Search 24,414,359 names ť

Filby's Passenger and Immigration Lists Index

Anyone with ancestors who entered the United States between 1500 and 1900 will find this huge database very useful.

The Passenger and Immigration Lists Index contains information on passengers traveling to many ports in the Americas:

Virginia
the West Indies
the Dominican Republic
Brazil
Venezuela

Search 5,122,255 names ť

Irish Potato Famine Refugees to New York

The potato famine in Ireland caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee Ireland for New York.

The Famine Irish Passenger Record File identifies 604,596 persons who arrived in the Port of New York during 1846-1851. 70 percent of the passenger records list Ireland as the native country, the remaining passengers are from 32 other countries including:

Canada
Brazil
Russia
Saint Croix
Morocco
the United States
other European countries

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British & Irish Passenger Lists 1890

The British & Irish Passenger Lists 1890 from British Origins contains abstracts of all passenger lists for sailings in 1890 from British & Irish ports with US and Canadian destinations. The names of 194,000 passengers are included but in the case of some sailings where there were large groups of foreign passengers (ie not British or Irish), the names of all such foreign passengers are not necessarily included.

Search 193,996 names ť

Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia

This database contains 4,767 ship passenger lists mostly from Great Britain and Germany during the first two decades of the 19th century.

The Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800 - 1819 was compiled in accordance with a law made to exempt immigrants from paying duties on their personal belongings.In the lists are the names of the passengers, and sometimes age, nationality, former places of residence, occupation, destination, and the names and relationships of accompanying family members.

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New World Immigrants

In 17th and 18th centery America numerous passenger lists appeared in articles in a wide variety of periodicals. This list of emigrants is a collection of ninety-seven articles from 50+ periodicals, mostly totally unknown to the researcher. Periodicals drawn on range from the obscure Pennsylvania Dutchman to the scholarly American Genealogist, from bi-weeklies to annuals, and, within the general time frame 1618-1878, the articles identify upwards of 27,500 emigrants, mainly English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss, French, Dutch, Norwegian, and Russian-German.

Search Volume I, 46,425 names ť

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