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Destination U.S.A.

Actual steamship advertisements and fare schedules. Read three personal accounts of life in steerage.

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.

Emigration U.S.A.

Read popular emigrant guides that provided potential emigrants with information about the United States and Canada.

Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors on Ancestry.com ^FREE

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

Findmypast - Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Immigrant Ancestors Project

The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, uses emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries. Volunteers working with scholars and researchers at Brigham Young University are creating a database of millions of immigrants based on these emigration registers.

Immigrant Ships Passenger Lists | Emigrant Ships Passenger Lists

Here you will find a gateway into websites with detailed passenger list information from countries around the world. Search hundreds of free ships' passenger lists. Find your immigrant ancestors on ships arriving in USA, Canada and other ports. Search passenger lists for UK outbound passengers between 1890 and 1960 and discover more about your family history.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Ports of Departure

Major European Ports c.1800's

Research Center German Emigrants in the USA

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.

ShopFamilyTree.com - Expert Webinars $

From Family Tree Magazine.

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

This database of indenture contracts includes over 10,000 indentured servants contracts from four different 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, his 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. Bristol, 1654 - 1686, Middlesex, 1682 - 1685, London I, 1682 - 1692, London II, 1718 - 1759.

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.