Ships, Passenger Lists & Immigration

 
The following is a summary of some links that will help you with this area of research:

• Ellis Island Online Database - American Family Immigration History Center

• The Ships List
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• http://www.cimorelli.com/safe/shipmenu.htm
  Tony Cimorelli's Searchable Database of Ship Arrivals (Contains the complete Morton Allan Directory of Ship Arrivals)

• http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html
  Passenger Lists on the Internet by Ron Prost

• http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/ships.htm
  Lou Alfano's Database of Ship Description's and Histories

• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3649/ships.html
  includes a bibliography of other sources of info as well - this is a great site for finding out about the ships themselves (not about passenger lists)

• http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html
  This site has an amazing compilation of information about immigration - including early stuff, costs of passage, handbooks, descriptions of travel conditions, etc, etc, Although it says Immigrants to Canada - the information covers the world pretty much.

• http://home.alt.net/~paul.petersen/index.htm

• http://istg.rootsweb.com/
  The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - a group of volunteers dedicated to making the search for our ancestors easier.

• http://feefhs.org/feefhsei.html
  The FEEFHS search engine allows you to look up a number of important passenger lists

• See also: Cyndi's List of Ships, Passenger Lists & Immigration Links

• Check: Tracing Immigrant Ancestors

Thanks to L Ellis and Hilary Rauch for providing much of this information via the Austria Mailing List.