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Ångare, Steamship, Steamboat, Ångfartyg

MARIEHOLM: Built 1934 for Swedish America Line for traffic in the Baltic Sea. RAGNE and REGIN: Swedish twin ships, ordered by Sveabolaget. BØRØYSUND (ex Odin, Skjergar, Børøsund, Hyma): Built in 1908. Served as passenger, cargo and tug vessel in Norway. VIRGO: Expedition ship for the swede S A Andrèe`s attempt to reach the North Pole with a balloon. HANS EGEDE: Ordered in 1905 for the Danish Royal Greenland Trade Department. THOR: Typical for the steam vessels that in the end of the 19th century sailed on the swedish canals and lakes.

Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank / German Emigrants Database

The database contains information about people who left Europe for the United States of America primarily from German ports. The main sources of the data in the German Emigrants Database are the passenger manifests of the ships on which the emigrants traveled.

Downward Bound - Great Lakes Shipping Genealogy Index

Duivendijk.net - Ship Photos, Maritime Links - by Leon van Duivendijk

Database of more than 300 immigrant ships including photos. More than 1,000 links.

ÐOVA

Photos and histories of passenger ships.

Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources

From Addie's Genealogy Home Page.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Emigration and Immigration Records

About two types of emigration records from Europe to America: records of departure from their country of origin and records of arrivals in ports of entry.

Fredericksburg Port Records

Virginia.

Genealogy.com - Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

CD-ROM version of P. William Filby's Passenger and Immigration Lists Index - usually refered to simply as Filby's. Updated for 2000, it includes approximately 3,280,000 individuals who arrived in United States and Canadian ports.

German and American Sources for German Emigration to America

Great Ships

The postcard and ephemera collection of Jeff Newman.

Hunting Passenger Lists

Focus is on Norwegian immigration but includes useful information for all ethnic groups.

Immigrant Ancestors Project

Lighthouse Records

Selected scanned examples of Scottish lighthouse records from the Scottish Archives Network.

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.

Maritim historia: Litteratur & Länkbibliotek

Links to maritime history and genealogy sites. The crash of the shipbuilding industry in Ostrobothnia, Finland in the late 19th century was one of the main causes of the subsequent mass emigration to North America.

Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page

Ocean Liner Passenger Lists Catalog

From New Steamship Consultants.

Passenger Lists and Immigration Records

A Guide from the Clayton Library in Houston, Texas.

Passenger Lists General Info from the JewishGen FAQ