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General Resource Sites

• Destination U.S.A. 
  Actual steamship advertisements and fare schedules. Read three personal accounts of life in steerage.
• Emigration U.S.A. 
  Read popular "emigrant guides" that provided potential emigrants with information about the United States and Canada.
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Ports of Departure 
• Major European Ports c.1800's 
• Scottish Emigration Database 
  Online searchable database containing the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.
  • Search 
• The Solem, Swiggum & Austheim Emigration Ship Index 
  Ships by port of departure in Norway from 1825 to 1875.
• Virtual Jamestown - Indentured Servants - Search the Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686 
  Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations. This database of indenture contracts will eventually include over 15,000 indentured servants contracts from the London, Middlesex, and Bristol Registers. The contracts indicate not only the servant's name and length of indenture, but also the name of the servant's parents and owner, their home province and city, occupation, destination, and ship of embarkation. These records provide a detailed composition of indentured servants in the 17th century Atlantic World. The Bristol Registers record all indentured servants who left from the port of Bristol, England. Servants listed their place of origin as towns and provinces all over England, as well as many foreign countries such as Ireland and France. They were headed to many different places in the New World, including Virginia, Barbados, and the Caribbean islands. Lengths of indenture varied from 3 to 7 years, with the average length for females being 4.3 years, and for males, 4.44 years. The database contains records for approximately 10,000 indentured servants sent from Bristol to the New World.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Antwerp, Belgium

• BELGIUM-ROOTS Project: Ports of departure - Emigration port Antwerp 
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Antwerp, Belgium 

Bremen, Germany

• Bremen Passenger Lists 1920 - 1939 
  Online searchable database of passenger lists.
• Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank / German Emigrants Database 
  From the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven. Intends to provide a searchable database of all European emigrants who emigrated to North America from German ports between 1820 and 1939. Sources are passenger lists. Current database may be searched at the museum in Bremerhaven or by mail for a fee.
• The Galveston-Bremen Project 
  Details for immigrant ship arrivals at the Port of Galveston, Texas between the years 1865 and 1896. It contains the following: a list of immigrant vessels that arrived between the years of 1865 and 1896 arrival and departure data passenger list availability (citations included) transcribed passenger lists taken from newspaper accounts and souvenir passenger lists (alternative sources) an index of surnames listed on the passenger lists available from alternative sources.
• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854 
  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1855-1862, With Places of Origin 
  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, With Places of Origin 
  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867 
  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1868-1871 
  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.
• German Ports: Gateway to America 
  Article by Raymond S. Wright III.
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Bremen, Germany 
• ISTG - Bremen Departures 
  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild and Die Maus Genealogical Society of Bremen Germany.
• Namenskartei aus den "Bremer Schiffslisten" (Bremen Ship Passengers 1904-1914) 
  Article by John Movius with David Dreyer.

Cherbourg, France

• BELGIUM-ROOTS - Port of Departure: Cherbourg 

Hamburg, Germany

• Ancestry.com - Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 / Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850-1934 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Database includes images of all the passenger lists digitized from microfilm in partnership with the Hamburg State Archive. Also includes a partial index, covering the years 1890-1913, created by the archive. Original data: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Bestand: 373-7 I, VIII (Auswanderungsamt I). Mikrofilmrollen K 1701 - K 2008, S 17363 - S 17383, 13116 - 13183.
• BallinStadt Hamburg - "Port of Dreams" 
  A museum located on the grounds of the former ‘Emigrants’ Halls’.
• Emigration Port Hamburg 
  Excellent online presentation of why Hamburg was a major port of departure for immigrants, how the were treated, what they faced, and how the process of departure worked.
• German Ports: Gateway to America 
  Article by Raymond S. Wright III.
• Hamburg Emigration List Name Permutations 
  Software for sale which generates alternate spellings of surnames.
• Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934 
• Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850–1934 Resource Guide 
• Historic Emigration Office 
  Professional will search the Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists for a fee.
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Hamburg, Germany 
• 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.
  • Hamburg 

Hull, England

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Hull, England 
• Migration from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1888 by Nick Evans- The Solem, Swiggum & Austheim Ship Index 

Le Havre, France

• BELGIUM-ROOTS Project: Port of Departure - Le Havre 
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Le Havre, France 

Liverpool, England

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Liverpool, England 
• Leaving from Liverpool 
  Emigration from the port of Liverpool during the mid Nineteenth century.
• List of Emigrants to America from Liverpool, 1697-1707 
  A book by Elizabeth French. For sale from Genealogical Publishing Company.
• Some Early Emigrants to America [and] Early Emigrants to America from Liverpool 
  A book by Cregoe D. P. Nicholson. For sale from Genealogical Publishing Company.
• TheShipsList - Liverpool Landing Stage, 1847 

Rotterdam, Netherlands

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Rotterdam, Netherlands 

Southampton, England

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Southampton, England 

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