|
Sources for Ship Passenger Lists and Emigration Research
Published passenger
ship compilations are generally derived from several sources and contain
information on early immigrants. The lists themselves, dating from around
1820, are available from the National Archives Microfilm Publication
Program.
Early records relating
to immigration originated in regional customhouses. Beginning in 1819
the captain or master of a vessel arriving at a port in the United States
or its territories was required to submit a list of passengers to the
collector of customs. These records have been transferred to microfilm
and are available at the National Archives. See Immigrant and Passenger
Arrivals: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
for an explanation of the program and a list of the microfilm available.
Since passenger
ship lists are arranged by the port of arrival and date and since many
have not been indexed their use is sometimes limited; however, indexes
are gradually becoming available to help in this search. See Searching
MNCAT below for suggested subject headings.
The following materials
are held at the University of Minnesota Libraries
Please note: The
location designation IHRC refers to the Immigration History Research
Center, a non-circulating collection which is an international resource
on American immigration and ethnic history. The IHRC web site is: http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/
General
Works on Immigration
- Balch Institute
for Ethnic Studies. Research Library. A Guide to Manuscript and
Microfilm Collections of the Research Library of the Balch Institute
for Ethnic Studies. Compiled and edited by Monique Bourque and
R. Joseph Anderson. Philadelphia, Pa.: The Institute, 1992.
- Location:
IHRC quarto E184 .A1 B67x 1992
- Colletta, John
Philip. They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's
Arrival Record 2nd ed.. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1993.
- Location:
Wilson Reference CS49 .C63 1993
- Dictionary
of American Immigration History. Edited by Francesco Cordasco.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990.
- Location:
Wilson Reference JV6450 .D53 1990
- Forgotten
Doors: The Other Ports of Entry to the United States. Edited by
M. Mark Stolarik. Philadelphia: Blach Institute Press, 1988.
- Location:
Wilson JV6450 .F67 1988
- Harvard Encyclopedia
of American Ethnic Groups. Edited by Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge,
Ma.: Balknap Press of Harvard University, 1980.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto E184 .A1 H35
- Tepper, Michael.
American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants
Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam. Baltimore: Genealogical
Pub. Co., 1988.
- Location:
Wilson Reference CS49 .T46 1988
- University of
Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center. The Immigration
History Research Center: A Guide to Collections. Compiled and
edited by Suzanna Moody and Joel Wurl. New York: Greenwood Press,
1991.
- Location:
Wilson Reference E184 .A1 U59x 1991
Passenger
Lists
- Burgert, Annette
K. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North
America. Breinigsville, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1983-,
v.1-2. Volume 1: Northern Kraichgau; Volume 2: Western Palatinate.
- Location:
Wilson 978.6 P384p v.1-2
- Burgert, Annette
K. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America.
Camden, Me.: Picton Press, 1992.
- Location:
Wilson E183 .A4 B87x 1992
- Coldham, Peter
Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775.
Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988.
- Location:
Wilson Reference CS61 .C62 1988; Several other books by this author
are available.
- The Famine
Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New
York, 1846-1851. Ira A. Glazier, ed.; Michael Tepper, assoc. ed.
Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983.
- Location:
Wilson Reference E184 .I6 F25 1983 v.1-4
- Filby, P. William.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography, 1538-1900: Being
a Guide to Published Lists of Arrivals in the United States and Canada.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto CS47 .F54x 1981
- Filby, P. William.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: A Guide to Published Arrival
Records of About 500,000 Passengers Who Came to the United States
and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto CS68 .P363 v.1-3; and supplements
- Immigrants
to the Middle Colonies: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and
Associated Data from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
Edited by Michael Tepper. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1978.
- Location:
Wilson 929.373 Im6
- Italians to
America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899.
Edited by Ira A Glazier and P. William Filby. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly
Resources, 1992. Vol. 1-10.
- Location:
IHRC E184 .I8 I844 1992 v.1-10
- Kaminkow, Jack
and Marion. A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1718-1759.
Baltimore, Md.: Magna Carta Book Co., 1988.
- Location:
Wilson 973.2 K128
- Kristinsson,
Junius. Vesturfaraska 1870-1914=A Record of Emigrants from Iceland
to America, 1870-1914. Reykjavik: Sagnfraedistofnum Haskola Islands,
1983.
- Location:
Wilson quarto E184 .I3 J86x 1983.
- Lancour, Harold.
A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825: Being a Guide
to Published Lists of Early Immigrants to North America. 3d ed.
New York: New York Public Library, 1963.
- Location:
Wilson Reference JV6465 .L36x 1963
- Lancour, Harold.
Passenger Lists of Ships Coming to North America, 1607-1825: A
Bibliography. New York, New York Public Library, 1937.
- Location:
Wilson 016.325 L228
- Migration
from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers at the Port of New York,
1875-. Edited by Ira A Glazier. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,
1995-.
- Location:
IHRC E184 .R9 M54 1995, v.1-4
- Naeseth, Gerhard
B. Norwegian Immigrants to the United States: A Biographical Directory,
1825-1850. Madison, Wi.: University of Wisconsin, 1993.
- Location:
Wilson quarto E184 .S2 N24 1993
- New World
Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated
Data from Periodical Literature. Michael Tepper, ed. Baltimore:
Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988
- Location:
IHRC CS68 .N48 1988
- Olsson, Nils
William. Swedish Passenger Arrivals in New York, 1820-1850.
Stockholm: PA Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1967.
- Location:
Wilson 325.73 Ol8a
- Olsson, Nils
William. Swedish Passenger Arrivals in U.S. Ports, 1820-1850 (except
New York): With additions and corrections to Swedish Passenger
Arrivals in New York 1820-1850. Stockholm: Kungl. bibl., 1979.
- Location:
Wilson 929.373 Ol8
- Ptak, Diane Synder.
A Compilation of American and Canadian Passenger/Emigration Registers.
Albany, NY: D.S. Ptak, 1993.
- Location:
IHRC quarto CS25 .P77x 1993
- Rasmussen, Louis
J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists. 4 vols. Colma, Calif.:
San Francisco Historic Record and Genealogy Bulletin, 1965-70.
- Location:
Wilson 975 Sa5 R184 v.1-4
- The Source:
A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Edited by Arlene Eakle and
Dennis Szucs. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, Inc., 1984. See chapter on
Immigration: Finding Immigrant Origins.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto CS42.7 .S68x 1984 (1997 edition on order)
- Swierenga, Robert
P. Dutch Immigrants in U.S. Ship Passenger Manifests, 1820-1880:
An Alphabetical Listing by Household Heads and Independent Persons.
Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1983.
- Location:
Wilson E184 .D9 S95 1983
- United States.
National Archives and Records Service. Immigrant and Passenger
Arrivals: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1983.
- Location:
Wilson Reference quarto Z5305 .U5 U54 1983
- Whyte, Donald.
A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada before Confederation.
Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986.
- Location:
Wilson F1035 .S4 W49x 1986
Information
on the Ships
- Albion, Robert
Greenhalgh. Square-riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets
to England, France, and the Cotton Ports. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1938. (covers 1818-1858)
- Location:
Wilson 387.5 A114
- Anuta, Michael
J. Ships of Our Ancestors. Menominee, Mich.: Ships of Our Ancestors,
Inc., 1983. Reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993.
- Location:
IHRC VM381 .A58 1993
- Bonsor, N.R.P.
North Atlantic Seaway: An Illustrated History of the Passenger
Services Linking the Old World with the New. Jersey, Channel Islands:
Brookside Pub., 1979.
- Location:
Wilson 387.522 B644a
- Cutler, Carl
C. Queens of the Western Ocean: The Story of America's Mail and
Passenger Sailing Lines. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1961.
- Location:
Wilson 387.5 C973
- Dunn, Laurence.
North Atlantic Lines, 1899-1913. London: H. Evelyn, 1961.
- Location:
Wilson Annex, Sub-Basement Flat VM381 .D82
- Dunn, Laurence.
Passenger Liners. London: A. Coles, 1965.
- Location:
Wilson 387.2 C922
- Heinberg, Aage.
Over Atlanten fra og til Denmark Gennem Tiderne. K. Benhaven:
J.D. Qvist and Kpm, 1936. (Ships from Denmark to the United States)
- Location:
Wilson quarto #184 .S19 H28
- Kludas, Arnold.
Deutsche Ozean-Passagierschiffe, 1850 bis 1895=German Passenger Liners,
1850 until 1895. Moers: Steiger, 1983.
- Location:
Wilson VM381 .K57 1983
- Kludas, Arnold.
Great Passenger Ships of the World. Translated by Charles Hodges.
Cambridge: Stephens, 1975.
- Location:
IHRC VM381 .K5813 1975 v.1
- MacGregor, David
R. Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775-1875.
2nd rev. ed. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1988.
- Location:
Wilson quarto VM144 .M3 1988
- MacGregor, David
R. Merchant Sailing Ships, 1775-1815: Sovereignty of Sail.
Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
- Location:
Wilson quarto VK19 .M28 1985
- Morton Allan
Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals for the Years 1890
to 1930 at the Port of New York and or the Years 1904 to 1926 at the
Port of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore. New York:
Immigration Information Bureau, Inc. 1931.
- Location:
IHRC HE945 .M67x 1931
- Schauffelen,
Otmar. Great Sailing Ships: An Illustrated Catalogue and History
of 150 Extant Barks, Barkentines, Brigs, Brigantines, Frigates, Schooners,
and Other Large Sailing Vessels Built Since 1628. Translated by
Inge Moore.
- Location:
Wilson 387.2 Sch13E
Searching
MNCAT
You can use MNCAT,
the University Libraries' computerized catalog, to search for specific
subjects. The following are some examples of useful subject terms for
genealogists; other examples are found in the Library of Congress Subject
Headings books located in the University of Minnesota Libraraies.
apprentices--[country]--registers
apprentices--united states--registers
documents on microfilm--catalogs
ellis island immigration station
[country name, continent, region]--emigration and immigration
spain--emigration and immigration
north america--emigration and immigration
immigrants--[country name, continent, region]
immigrants--europe
immigrants--germany
immigrants--north america--registers
immigrants--united states--bibliography
immigrants--united states--history
indentured servants--[country]--registers
indentured servants--england--registers
merchant marine--[country]
naturalization--united states
ports of entry--united states--history
prisoners--[country]--registers
prisoners--england--registers
prisoners--transportation of
redemptioners
registers of births, etc.--united states--indexes
ship registers
ships--passenger lists
ships--[country]--passenger lists
ships--great britain--passenger lists
ships--united states--passenger lists
steamboat lines
steamboat lines--[country]
steamboat lines--passenger lists
united states--emigration and immigration--history
united states--emigration and immigration--sources
united states--genealogy--handbooks, manuals, etc.
united states--genealogy--sources
Search under type of ship, for example:
clipper ships
convict ships
merchant ships
ocean liners
packets
passenger ships--[country]
sailing ships
Internet Resources
Page comments: Janet
M. Roseen
|
