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Immigration and Passenger Lists
American Plantations and Colonies Data Banks on Italian Emigrants Ellis Island Hamburg Link to Your Roots Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild TheShipsList Find news and reviews on more great Web sites in the August 2003 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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english-america.com
Early arrivals to America are listed here, with more than 800 passenger lists and 25,000 Colonial immigrants dating to the first settlers at Jamestown.
213.212.128.168/radici/ie/
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These databases cover 200,000 Italians who made their way to New York in the decade before Ellis Island opened, from 1880 to 1891, as well as more than a million emigrants from Italy to South America. You have to register (it's free) before you can use the site.
www.ellisisland.org
If your ancestor was among the 17 million immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924, you can find his or her passenger listing here. Once you've identified the right record in this vast database, you can view the digitized actual manifests and an image of the ship your ancestor traveled on, then join the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation ($45 a year) so you can create your own online family scrapbook. Even if you don't have an Ellis Island immigrant in your family tree, check this site to see if you have an ancestor among the 5 million other passengers and crew included in the database. See the December 2002 Family Tree Magazine for tips on searching this site.
www.hamburg.de/fhh/behoerden/staatsarchiv/link_to_your_roots/english/
Not for German researchers only, this site covers emigrants via Hamburg, an important port of departure for many European nationalities. Digitized manifests cover only 1890 and 1891 so far, but eventually the site plans to cover 5 million passengers from 1850 to 1934. Basic searches are free, but detailed results cost $20 for one to three names or $30 for four to 10.
www.immigrantships.net
Another impressive volunteer effort, this site serves up transcriptions of passenger lists from more than 4,000 ships. If your ancestors didn't come through Ellis Island, start here—and don't miss the search engine buried near the bottom.
www.theshipslist.com
Besides links to passenger lists, TheShipsList offers a virtual education in 19th-century shipping, from photos of ports and vessels to period narratives. How much was a trans-Atlantic ticket when your immigrant ancestor sailed? You can find the answer here.
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