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Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published SourcesPassenger ListsAddington, Charles, comp. The Atlantic Canadians, 1600-1900: An Alphabetized
Directory of the People, Places and Vital Dates.
Edited by Noel Montgomery Elliot. 3 vols. Indexes. Name of each immigrant and, if known, the following data: occupation and place of residence in a specific year. Many emigrated to the U.S. Avakian, Linda L. The passenger lists include name of vessel, ports of embarkation and arrival, date of arrival, and the names of 7,300 passengers--their ages, sex, and often the place of last residence, and final destination. Baca, Leo. Names of more than 13,300 [?] Czech passengers who arrived at the ports of Galveston between 1846 and 1891 and from 1896 to 1906; New Orleans from 1852 to 1899; New York and Baltimore in 1879. Data include name and age; country of origin (in many instances town or village); name of ship, and date and port of arrival. Blaha, Albert J., comp. Boyd-Bowman, Peter. General information on where Spanish colonials originated in Spain; specific information regarding the origin of settlers in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Santo Domingo, and the Darien colony in Panama; a section on women who emigrated from 1509-1519; and statistics on merchants, servants, governors, the religious, and military captains. The remainder of the book is divided by Spanish province or city and lists emigrants from those places. Data include their servants, often in what year the emigrants sailed, where they settled, in what events they participated, year of death (if known), and who accompanied them. In some instances colonists made several round trips to Spain. Burgert, Annette K. Burgert, Annette K. "Prepared for distribution to members of the Pennsylvania German Society during 1992 as Volume XXVI in its series of publications on Pennsylvania German history and Culture" (verso title page). Annette Kunselman Burgert and Henry Z. Jones, Jr. Coldham, Peter Wilson. Concerned with the deportation of some 45,000 convicted felons from England to America, 1615-1775, with historical background, descriptions of the English prisons, comments on those who dispensed justice, and common business practices of those who transported the emigrants. Coldham, Peter Wilson Connick, Lucile Mallon, comp. Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743: A Transcription
of the Report of the Irish House of Commons Into Enforced Emigration
to America. On added t.p.: . . . Journal
of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland,
Volume 7, 1796. Baltimore: Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1992. 134
p., index. The First Germans in America: With a Biographical
Directory of New York Germans. Edited by Don Heinrich
Tolzmann. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1992. Index, bibliographical
references. The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants
Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851. Edited
by Ira A. Glazier and Michael Tepper. 7 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical
Pub. Co., 1983-1986. Bibliography, indexes. The Great Potato Famine, brought on by a blight that struck the potato crop, reduced nearly all of Ireland to poverty. Between 1846-1851 over a million men, women, and children emigrated to the U.S. and Canada, the majority of them entering through the port of New York. In essence, this work is a chronological listing of nearly 651,000 passengers with name, age, sex, occupation, date of arrival, port of embarkation, and vessel. Filby, P. William, editor. Gives "full bibliographic information for more than 2,550 published passenger and immigration lists." A revision of A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825, compiled by Harold Lancour. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. by Richard J. Wolfe, 1963. P. William Filby, with Mary K. Meyer. Alphabetical listing of passengers who arrived in North America and the West Indies between 1538-1900, compiled from published sources: passenger lists and naturalization records. Entries include age; year of arrival or naturalization, with an abbreviation for the bibliographic citation with volume and page. Some 125,000 names are added annually in the published Supplements. Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving
at U.S. Ports, 1850- . Edited by Ira A. Glazier
and P. William Filby. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1988-
. <1-> . Approximately 70,000 names in each volume. Lists are arranged chronologically by ship arrival. "Every passenger is identified by full name, age, sex, occupation, destination and when . . . available [the] country, province, or town of origin." Hacker, Werner, editor. Hamburg (Germany). Auswanderungsamt.
[Records, 1850-1873.] Finding aid, Manuscript Division Reading Room. See also the vertical file, LH&G. Names east European emigrants from two lists covering the period 1850-1873: Direct Lists (indexed) are passengers who sailed directly from Hamburg, Germany, to their destination; Indirect Lists (indexed) names passengers who sailed from Hamburg, but who stopped at another European port before reaching their destination. Handwritten in German script, the names are arranged by first letter of the surname. Entries include name of the ship, master of the vessel, departure date, name of passenger, age, previous residence, occupation, and destination. Haury, David A., comp. and editor. Hebert, Donald J. Part 1, over 1,600 Acadian exiles transported on six ships from France to Louisiana in 1785, with marriage records from the seventh vessel. Part 2, a "general index" of 25,025 exiled 18th-century Acadians derived from five works published during the period 1978-1995. Holcomb, Brent, trans. Names derived from documents deposited with the collectors of customs and from State Department transcripts, the only surviving 19th-century passenger manifests from the Port of Charleston. Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871: List of Passengers
Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J.
Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line. Compiled under
the direction of Brian Mitchell. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,
1988. xvii, 333 p., ill., index. For business reasons two Londonderry shipping firms kept passenger lists of their Atlantic crossings: J. & J. Cooke, 1847-1867, and William McCorkell & Co., 1863-1871. Cooke's include name of ship, year of embarkation, destination, Irish address of the passenger (usually town), and ages of children. The McCorkell lists provide name and address of passenger, month and year of embarkation, ages of children, month and year "engaged" at Philadelphia by the Robert Young and Co., name of the ship, month and year of embarkation. Italians to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving
at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899. Edited by Ira A. Glazier
and P. William Filby. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1992-
. Vol. 1- . Indexed. Johnson, Martin Wm., trans. Records from Lutheran churches and cemeteries in Wis. and Minn., passenger lists of Lutherans arriving in New York, and the 1870 census of Pierce Co., Neb. Jones, Jack Moreland and Mary Bondurant Warren. Junius Kristinsson. Lists 14,263 Icelanders according to their last place of residence in Iceland (by shire, community, farm, and house), year of emigration, marital status, age, port of embarkation, ship, destination, and source. Kaminkow, Jack and Marion. Luxembourgers in the New World: A Reedition Based
on the Work of Nicholas Gonner, "Die Luxemburger in der Neuen Welt,"
Dubuque, Iowa, 1889. Edited by Jean Ensch, Jean-Claude
Muller, Robert E. Owen; original translations by Gerald L. Liebenau
and Jean-Claude Muller. Esch-sur-Alzette, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg:
Editions-Reliuers Schortgen, 1987. 2 vols. Ill. Vol. 1, discussion of Luxembourger emigration, 1840-1890, with comments on settlements, occupations, and activities in the U.S. Vol. 2, principally an index to approximately 4,000 personal and place names cited in the Luxembourger Gazette (Dubuque, Iowa), 1872-1892. Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers
Arriving at the Port of New York, 1875- . Edited
by Ira A. Glazier. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1995- . Naeseth, Gerhard B. Olsson, Nils William and Erik Wiken. Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists
Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore
Society. Edited by Don Yoder. Baltimore: Genealogical
Pub. Co., 1980. xi, 394 p., ill. Rasmussen, Louis J. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1978- . CS68 .R37 1978 Lists reconstructed principally from newspaper notices of ship arrivals because official government records of entry were destroyed by fire. Rhineland Emigrants: Lists of German Settlers in
Colonial America. Edited by Don Yoder. Baltimore:
Genealogical Pub. Co., 1981. xii, 170 p., ill. Rieder, Milton P., editor. Riviere, Mary Ann, comp. Schenk, Trudy, Ruth Froelke, and Inge Bork. Projected 8-volume work, each with approximately 12,000 names of individuals derived from 19th-century immigration registers of Wuerttemberg, Germany. Data include date and place of birth, date of emigration application, destination, home district of the applicant, and number of the microfilmed originals at the Genealogical Society of Utah. Ships Passenger Lists, Port of Galveston, Texas,
1847-1871. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press,
1984. 131 p. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy.
Rev. ed. Edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking.
Salt Lake City: Ancestry, Inc., 1997. ix, 834, ills., bibliography,
index. Discusses passenger manifests, oaths of allegiance, naturalization records, finding aids, special collections, and bibliographies (country by country), and approaches for doing research. Table 15-3, "Historical Summary of U.S. Naturalization Provisions," lists acts pertaining to naturalization, residence requirement, and eligibility. Spear, Burton W. Swierenga, Robert P., comp. Approximately 55,000 names from 100,000 passenger lists, chronologically arranged by date of arrival: name, relationship in the household, sex, age, occupation, destination, country of origin, vessel, port of embarkation, on board accommodation, port of arrival. Tepper, Michael, editor. Tepper, Michael, editor. LH&G "Baggage lists" were the result of exempting in-coming passengers from paying duty on personal belongings as specified in legislation passed by Congress on March 2, 1799. Approximately 40,000 entries are alphabetically arranged by surnames of passengers, name of the vessel, and date of arrival. A separate alphabetical index lists the ships, their ports, and dates of embarkation. Historical background and a critical evaluation of the lists are covered in the introduction. United States. National Archives and Records Service. Voultsos, Mary. Voultsos, Mary. Wareing, John. Wehner, Gustave. Lists 2,645 emigrants who sailed from Bremen, Germany to North America, between 1832 and 1849, in Isabella, Pauline, Meta, and Uhland, master Jürgen Meyer. Taken from Fredrich Spengemann's Die Reisen der Segelfregatten Isabella, Pauline, Meta und Uhland nach Nordamerika; Nach Kapitan Jürgen Meyers Bordbuch. (Bremen: Buckdruckerei Vahland & Co., 1937). LC Microfilm 46844 (E). Whyte, Donald. Contains "over 30,000 names" of emigrants settling in Canada before 1867, many of whom subsequently moved to the United States. Whyte, Donald. Vol. 1, approximately 6,480 names. Vol. 2, provides "names and other details" of 1,000 Scots who emigrated to Canada prior to 1867 as well as "additional material relating to 170 emigrants who were listed in Vol. 1. |
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