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• Archives New Zealand. Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga - Research Guides - Migration

  Shipping records, immigration 1840-1880s, immigration 1880s-1970, special group/nationality migrations, other sources of immigration information, emigration.

• Bermuda Maritime Museum

  Mangrove Bay, Bermuda.

• Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - Utvandring - Emigration

  Norway.

• Geelong Maritime Museum

  Australia.

• Guildhall Library Manuscripts Collection

  London, England.

  • Leaflet Guides to Records

    • Corporation of Trinity House - Family History Sources

    • Lloyd's Captains Registers

    • Records of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen

    • Records of the Corporation Of Trinity House

  • search@guildhall

    Experienced researchers will undertake fee-for-service research in Guildhall Library's collections.

• Hampton Roads Naval Museum

  Norfolk, Virginia.

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania

  Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

• Ireland-Australia transportation database (1791–1853)

  Convicts from Ireland to Australia, 1788 to 1868.

• J. Porter Shaw Library

  San Francisco, California. Holdings of Pacific coast commercial maritime history.

• Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

  Vergennes, Vermont. The museum has documentation on boatmen, sailors, and boat builders and their families that they are willing to share.

• Maine Maritime Museum

• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston

  Ontario, Canada.

• Maritime History Archive at Memorial University of Newfoundland

  • About the Archive

  • Holdings & Collections

  • Online Catalog

  • Publications

  • Research Services

    • List of the principal records of British shipping and seamen, showing their present locations

    • Passenger Lists, Hamburg 1850-1934

    • Researching genealogy and family history

      Of particular interest, the Archive is the depository of the the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Agreements and Account of Crew, 1863-1938, 1951-1976. Agreements and account of crew of British Empire vessels, containing the names of officers and seamen; their date and place of birth; the date and place of joining and leaving the vessel; the previous vessel; wages, rank and reason for leaving the vessel; ports of call and a description of the vessel.

    • Researching ships and seafarers

      • Shipping Records

        • Atlantic Canada Shipping Project.

        • Crew lists and logbooks

        • Ship captains

        • Shipwrecks

        • Vessel registers

        • Voyages

• Maritime Museums - Smith's Master Index to World Wide Maritime Museum Internet Resources

  Links with descriptions to an alphabetically arranged listing of maritime museums.

• Murphy Library University of Wisconsin La Crosse

  Large collection of photographs of inland steamboats, particularly on the Mississippi and Ohio.

• Mystic Seaport Museum

  Mystic, Connecticut.

  • Conducting Vessel Research

    Online brochure explaining general vessel research procedures.

  • Immigration & Steamships: Photos from the Collection of Mystic Seaport

    Images of steamships available for ordering via the Internet.

    • Steamship Line List

    • Vessel List

  • The Rosenfeld Collection

    The largest single collection of commercial and recreational maritime photographs in the United States.

• NARA - AAD

  National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Access to Archival Databases (AAD), United States.

  • NARA - AAD - Browse by Subjects

    • Genealogy/ Personal History

      • Genealogy/ Personal History: Passenger Lists

  • NARA - AAD - List of Series

• National Archives and Records Administration

  United States.

  • Genealogical Resources at the National Archives

  • Research Topics of Genealogical Interest

    • Immigration Records (Ship Passenger Arrival Records)

      • Records for Passengers Who Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine

        These materials identify 604,596 persons who arrived in the Port of New York, 1846-1851, and the ships on which they arrived. Approximately 70 percent of the passenger records list Ireland as the native country.

        • Search the Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File

        • Search the List of Ships that Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine

• National Maritime Museum

  United Kingdom.

  • Collections & Research

    • Library and Manuscripts Catalogue

      Online searchable database of manuscripts.

    • National Maritime Museum - Research Guides

      • Lloyd's

      • Passengers

      • Shipping Companies

      • The Merchant Navy

      • Women and the Sea

    • The Caird Library

      The Caird Library is the largest and most significant reference Library of its kind in the world. The collections cover every aspect of maritime affairs, containing important and unique materials which are freely available for consultation.

• Naval Historical Center

  U.S. Navy History, Department of the Navy.