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• Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors on Ancestry.com ^FREE

  A free 7-page how-to article from the Ancestry.com Learning Center.

• Fredericksburg Port Records

  Virginia.

• Genealogy Articles, Tips & Research Guides by Joe Beine

  Census Records, Irish Genealogy, Military Records, Native American Genealogy, Naturalization Records, Passenger Lists, State Research Guides.

  • Emigration & Immigration Records & Links

  • Finding Ship Passenger Lists & Immigration Records 1820-1940s

    Arrivals at US ports from Europe. By Joe Beine.

• Immigrant Ancestors Project

• Manifest Extract Forms

  Blank forms for extracting information from a List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the US Immigration Office at Port of Arrival.

  • 1893-1906

  • 1907-1918

  • 1919-1925

  • Post 1925

• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

  Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

  • Castle Garden years (1855-1891) plus other New York Arrivals

  • Ellis Island Search Forms and Ship Arrivals

    One-Step search of Ellis Island immigration records covering the years 1892 to 1924. Includes Missing Manifests Search and Morton Allan Directory. This search requires a subscription to a pay-for-use database.

  • Other Ports of Immigration

• Page O' Ports | Finding US Passenger Arrival Records

• ShopFamilyTree.com - Expert Webinars $

  From Family Tree Magazine.

  • Online Immigration Records: Retracing Your Ancestor's Journey Webinar

• Taylor & Francis Online :: Work in progress: Indirect passage from Europe Transmigration via the UK, 1836–1914

  Freely accessible article on European emigration to the USA and Canada via the UK, 1836-1914. Taken from Indirect Passage from Europe. European Transmigration via the UK, 1836-1914’, Journal for Maritime Research, Volume 3, No 1 (2001), pp. 70-84.

• Tips for Determining Your Ancestor's Probable Port of Arrival

  Suggestions for finding which port your immigrant ancestor may have arrived at in the United States.

• US Ports of Arrival & Their Available Immigration Records

  A Genealogy Guide by Joe Beine. US Ports of Arrival and Their Available Passenger Lists 1820-1957 includes Canadian & Mexican Border Crossing Records. A list of nearly every US port with links to their passenger lists, indexes and other finding aids. Includes Canadian and Mexican border crossing records.

• WorldVitalRecords.com - Search All Immigration And Travel Databases $

  An inexpensive, growing set of pay-for-use databases. Including vital records, court records, military records, and an extensive collection of newspapers.