Ships Passenger Lists to USA

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5 Steps to Finding an Ancestor in Ships Passenger Lists to USA

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Step 1 of a 5-Step Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in North America

Step 1: Search for your immigrant ancestor in the five major ports of arrival .... (continue reading)

Step 2 of a 5-Step Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in North America

Step 2: If you don't find your immigrant ancestor in a large port city, try smaller ports of arrival .... (continue reading).

Step 3 of a 5-Step Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in North America

Step 3: Still can't find your immigrant ancestor on an American ships passenger list? Try a Canadian Port of Arrival .... (continue reading)

Step 4 of a 5-Step Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in North America

Step 4: If you still can't find your ancestor in free ships passenger lists, try naturalization records and .... (continue reading)

Step 5 of a 5-Step Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in North America

Step 5: Search for ships passengers in Ethnic Groups immigrating to America .... (continue reading)

Discussion Forum

Steve Morse site

http://stevemorse.org/ Here is a site that offers optional ways to search, this is peticularly good when you know the name of the ship and date but maybe your…Continue

Started by Jo Saunders Jul 6, 2010.

Lambert Michael Family: Holland to NYC, then to Illinois. Arrival in 1847 9 Replies

My great grandmother Petronella Elizabeth Michael came with her parents and older siblings to the United States from Holland (her death certificate says Hoagland, Holland). She arrived in 1847…Continue

Tags: Michael, Illinois, NYC, Holland

Started by Sue McCormick. Last reply by Sue McCormick May 25, 2010.

Karl Viktor Petersson 1892

Hi I was wondering if someone could help me to find any informationabout my ancestor:Karl Viktor Pettersson/Petersson 1868 3 janIknow that he left for America 1892 4 april and he came to Ellis…Continue

Started by Kennert Ottosson Apr 22, 2010.

Looking for ancestors and their descendants in the USA

I have two ancestors who immigrated to the USA. First one is my great-great-uncle (paternal) Rudolf Kinnunen, born on the 6th of March, 1884. Immigrated to the USA September 14th, 1900 on Ellis…Continue

Tags: nikolai valdemar paananen, rudolf kinnunen, paananen, kinnunen

Started by Heli Kinnunen Mar 23, 2010.

Us to Canada Boarder record look-up Please 2 Replies

Hi could some kind soul look up a record for me on ancestry or other source (I only subscribe to the UK portion of ancestry).In: All Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956I need the image…Continue

Started by Joanne Lesley Dawe. Last reply by Joanne Lesley Dawe Mar 2, 2010.

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Comment by Heather Valdez Chambers on April 3, 2010 at 10:20am: Hi all. I just recently found a new website (new to me anyway) that lists ship manifests from 1820 - 1892, so these would be before Ellis Island opened. The website is http://www.castlegarden.org

I have recently found my ancestor as he came to the U.S. from Germany in 1862 and it was always a dead end because he came to the U.S. before Ellis Island opened. I hope this website will help others.

Heather

Comment by J.R. Fox on March 8, 2010 at 6:37pm: Thanks Terry!

Comment by terry reilly on March 3, 2010 at 9:58am: Sherman,

if you go to www.books.google.com

they have a full view (which can be searched) of the following

History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870 By Lewis Preston Summers

The other things you mentioned are snippet view only. Hopefully what I just mentioned is the one you were looking for.

Comment by J.R. Fox on March 2, 2010 at 5:53pm: I had a descendant come to Maryland from London on a ship called the brothers. Does anyone know if you can view an actual image of the original list? Also was wondering if their are any other paper work that would have info on it concerning the passengers. He came over in 1759 but not sure where in Maryland he ported. Baltimore or Annapolis maybe?

Comment by Kimberly on February 7, 2010 at 12:20pm: Please Join Our Group.
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/dnancestors
We'll be launching our site later on this year; a genealogy resource website links portal.

Comment by Sherman Shell on September 5, 2009 at 7:15pm: Does anyone on here have these CD titles:

- GOODSPEED, HISTORY OF EAST TENNESSEE - $40
- HISTORY OF WATAUGA COUNTY - $25
- HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA & WASHINGTON COUNTIES - $45

Would you be willing to look up Arnold Shell or Schell for me?

Comment by Linda Grinolds on August 17, 2009 at 3:49am: Lorine - Thanks for the info. I'll have to check out those sources. I would have answered sooner but I've been out of town & off the net for awhile.

Comment by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on August 4, 2009 at 9:03pm: Linda - Passenger lists to New York are on microfilm from 1820 and up. You can order film into a local FHC or search on Ancestry (they have scanned and indexed all the passenger arrivals)

There are earlier ships lists to NY too - for example Olive Tree Genealogy has free ships passenger lists for New York starting in 1624.

Comment by Linda Grinolds on August 3, 2009 at 2:04am: Where would I find passenger lists or any immigratioin info before Castle Garden? I know some of my family came into NY but Castle Garden wasn't in use yet. Please help.

Comment by Angela Marie Whitehead on July 18, 2009 at 5:34pm: there is alot of Fisher/Fischer families from Muenster,Tx.A german town.You may be able to find bunches of information there.I hope this helps.