lists

  • Ellis island foundation Inc.
    A great source to start your investigations

  • The and Immigration Lists Index (PILI)
    The and Immigration Lists Index (PILI) contains immigration, and naturalization records of individuals that came to the U.S. and Canada between the 16th and mid-20th centuries, containing more than 2.8 million citations. Information includes the name and age of the immigrant; year and place of arrival, naturalization, or other records which indicates person indexed is an immigrant; and names of all listed family members, with their age and relationship to the main entry.

  • Rootsweb ancestry
    The hundreds of gigabytes of data on RootsWeb.com are a by-product of millions of online genealogists sharing research.

  • Cyndi's List
    Links to ships and lists web sites.

  • Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
    Search limited lists on-line and volunteer to transcribe lists.

  • Library and Archives Canada

  • inGeneas Canadian Records
    Search the inGeneas database of Canadian and immigration records from the 18th to the 20th century with options for using wildcards or Soundex.

  • Portuguese Ship Master List
    Ongoing project lists ships and selected lists for Portuguese ships entering ports in the United States.

  • Germans to America-50 Volumes That Are Not To Be Trusted
    Critical review by Prof. Dr. Antonius Holtmann of the book series "Germans to America".

  • Slave Manifests
    Transcriptions of slave manifests for the port of New Orleans. NARA record group 36 records the movement of slaves between U.S. ports.

  • Limburg Emigrant Page
    Passenger lists emigrants from Limburg (Belgium).

  • Foreign Protestants to Nova Scotia
    Index to lists for ships carrying "Foreign Protestants" to Nova Scotia, 1750-1752.

  • Germans to America
    List of libraries that carry "Germans to America: Lists of s Arriving at U.S. Ports 1850-1893".

  • Published Lists: A Review
    Review of "German Immigrants" and of volumes 1-9 of the "Germans to America" series by Michael Palmer.

  • American Family Immigration History Center
    This is the entry to the official Ellis Island website (EllisIsland.org) where arrivals to New York can now be searched online. Since handwritten records have been transcribed and entered into this searchable database, they may contain typos due to unclear handwriting.

  • Olive Tree Genealogy
    Search hundreds of free ships lists to USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa and England.

  • Searching Ellis Island Database in One Step
    This search function provides an alternate way to search the transcribed arrival records at the American Family Immigration History Center (EllisIsland.org). If the person's name may not be entered correctly in the database, this provides the ability to search on other fields that are listed on the manifest.

  • Descendants of Titanic survivors
    A comprehensive listing of survivors of the ship Titanic. Some links to current descendants provided.

  • Locating Ship Lists
    Article by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.G. hosted at Genealogy.com.

  • National Archives and Records Administration
    Information regarding the lists that are available (and not available) and how to obtain copies of them.





You CANNOT get lists for:
  • Ships travelling between ports in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England Ferry boats, including Cross-Channel, North Sea and Irish Sea ferries Ships travelling between England and all European ports or any ports which lie on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, including all islands in the Med such as Malta UNLESS the ship's voyage started or ended outside that area.

  • Cruise ships


  • Voyages which happened before 1890 unless it was one of the very few lists which escaped the bonfire, but they are only for a few arrivals in Queenstown between 1878 and 1888 Ships bringing trans-migrants into the east coast ports in the UK (Hull, Grimsby etc) from Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, Belgium for example before shipping out through Liverpool, Leith etc. You can only pick these up in British lists by finding them leaving on transAtlantic ships or others bound for beyond-Europe destinations. No Wilson Line arrival lists into Hull.

  • You also cannot find the names of s who boarded ships in (say) Antwerp, which then called in to Dover or London for example before continuing to the US, Canada etc. So if your boarded a Red Star Line ship in Antwerp which took on more s in Dover en route for the US, you will not find the names of those already on board when she arrived in Dover.

  • Soldiers on purely troop-ship voyages

  • Ships which sank before they reached their port in the UK. This means there is NO arrival list for the Lusitania's last voyage, nor for any other ship which did not arrive at its destination for whatever reason.