Genealogy, Migration
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Ships - History/Description
"Great Passenger Ships of the World, Vol 1 1858-1912." by Arnold Kludas. This covers all passenger vessels with a gross tonnage of over 10,000 built during 1858-1912. It lists details on the ships such as dates, lines each vessel served, builders, dimensions, tonnage, speed, number of passengers the vessel holds in each class, and crew. RD"Red Star Line: Antwerpens Vergane Glorie!," by AndrŽ Kint and Robert Vervoort, Uitgeverij C. de Vries - Brouwers, Antwerpen/Rotterdam, 1990. [The history of the Red Star Line in Antwerp.] JAGP
"Ships of our Ancestors," by Michael J. Anuta, Published by Ships of Our Ancestors, Inc., Menominee, Michigan. [contains pictures of virtually every passenger ship]. JAGP
Emigrants from a single geographic area to multiple countries
"Eighteenth Century Register of Emigrants from Southwest Germany (to America and other countries)." ed. Prof. Werner Hacker, Closson Press. Apollo, PA, 1994. This book includes eighteenth century emigrants to America and other countries. It covers the geographical areas of today's Baden, Wuerttemberg, Rhine Palatinate and Saarland in Southwest Germany. It is important to note that not every emigrant from that region will be found in this book. DH16"Emigrants et Remigrants Luxembourgeois de 1876 a 1900, Etats-Unis d'Amerique, Argentine et pays etra-europeens." Ander Hatz, Archives Nationales Luxembourg, 1994. Listing of emigrants and returnees from Luxembourg to the United States, Argentina, and other non-European locations between 1876 and 1900. Provides name, locale, date of immigration, and numbers of males/females in the party. MN3
"EMIGRANTS FROM THE ISLAND OF FOEHR...1850-1875." Clifford Neal Smith, Westland Publications, McNeal, Arizona, 1983. German-American Genealogical Research - Monograph Number 17. Complete title is: EMIGRANTS FROM THE ISLAND OF FOEHR (FORMERLY DENMARK, NOW SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, GERMANY) TO AUSTRALIA, CANADA, CHILE, THE UNITED STATES AND THE WEST INDIES, 1850-1875. Gleaned from Hamburg ship lists. Lists immigrants by: Last name, First name, age, occupation, origin/destination, Year/Month/Day of departure. M25
"Irish Emigration Lists 1833 - 1839." Brian Mitchell, Clearfield/Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, 1989. Lists of Emigrants Extracted from the Ordance Survey Memoirs for Counties Londonderry and Antrim. MK
Emigrants to North America
"A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1583-1825." Harold Lancour, revised by Richard J. Wolfe, 3rd edition, New York Public Library, 1963. Title continues "Being a Guide to Published Lists of Early Immigrants to North America." This work lists some 262 books and articles containing passenger lists. If you know the name of a ship I can look up the sources that contain passenger lists for a ship of that name. Note that this book does not list any passengers, only ships. Note also that there are no passenger lists in this book - it is a guide for finding passenger lists published elsewhere.DHC1"Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America - 1625-1825." by David Dobson, Volume VI, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD. LPT
"Wij gaan naar Amerika. Vlaamse landverhuizers naar de nieuwe wereld 1850-1930." Dirk Musschoot, Lannoo (Tielt, Belgium), 2002. Translation of title: We're going to America. Flemish immigrants to the new world 1850-1930. The why and the how of Flemish immigration to the US and Canda. Many individual testimonials, personal letters, and description. Information on the Red Star Line out of Antwerp, arrival at Ellis Island, and life as immigrants. AC4
Emigrants to Canada
"A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada before Confederation." Donald Whyte. Contains 12,501 entries with over 30,000 names through 1867. Many lists who they married and children, occupation, birth and death date, and parents names. Also gives references to where info was obtained. KM2, T1"Irish Migrants in the Canadas - A New Approach." Bruce S McElliott, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. A broad based study of the Irish in Canada. Very little specific genealogical information but rather a study of the Irish as a whole entity. TF1
"The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada 1784 - 1855." Glengarry and Beyond Lucille H. Campey, Natural Heritage Books, 2005. A good resource about the various waves of immigrants from specific parts of Scotland to specific areas of Ontario. Some surnames, facts about the immigrants' trades, religions, economic circumstances, society, etc. All known passenger lists in this time period. 67 pages of ship crossings. M30
Emigrants to the United States
See also under Norway for emigrants from Norway to America."Armenian Immigrants, Boston 1891-1901 and New York 1880-1897." Linda L. Avakian, Picton Press, 1996. Includes Armenian Surname (generally ends in ...ian) or declared Armenian arrivals in New York Harbor from Jan 1880 to June 1897 and in Boston Harbor from Aug 1891 to Dec 1901. Information provided generally includes: Surname, First Name, age, sex, Nationality, Last Residence, Final Destination, Line#, Name of Ship, From and to Harbors, Arrival Date. There is an Index by Surname. Body of Book Lists all above information by Harbor/ship/date so you have a list of Armenians and information like a Manifest. I will automatically look for phonetically similar Surnames but recommend you provide them also. Given Name (Americanized or Armenian), approximate age, sex, if part of group also helps but not required. D3
"Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest." Translated by Mikell DeLores Wormell Warner and annotated by Harriet Duncan Munnick, French Prairie Press, St.Paul, Oregon,1972. 8 volumes set registry of Fathers Francois Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers, the first Catholic priests summoned from Winnipeg in 1838 to the Columbia Regions of the NWT. SN4
"Emigrants from the Former Amt Damme, Oldenburg (Now Niedersachsen), Germany, Mainly to the United States, 1830-1849." Westland Publications Monograph compiled from book entitled "Oldenburger Jahrbuch, Generations of emigrants out of the jurisdiction of Damme, particularly for North America in the years 1830-1880." Entries include name(s), year of emigration (Jahr der Auswanderung), number of persons (personenzahl) in party, and sometimes place of emigration and occupation. Westland Publications, GERMAN-AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH SERIES (G-SERIES), Monograph G-12. RVW
"Emigrants From Ireland to America 1735-1743." Frances McDonnell; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; 1992. During the 17th and 18th century over 60,000 men, women and children were involuntarily transported from the British Isles to the Americam colonies. This book covers some of those people transported during the years 1735-1743. CG3
"German Immigrant Servant Contracts Registered at the Port of Philadelphia 1817-1831." Farley Grubb,Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. LG3
"GERMANS TO AMERICA LISTS OF PASSENGERS ARRIVING at U.S. PORTS - January 1870 -- December 1870." Ira A. Glazier / P. William Filby List of Passengers in 1870. RP3
"The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633," Vol I, II and III. Robert Charles Anderson, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995. Short reports on immigrants to New England from 1620 to 1633. Indexed by surname, first name and places (the index is 280 pp). These volumes contain passenger lists, location from which the immigrant migrated, date of migration and first New England residence. Biographic information such as occupation, church membership, education, civil and military offices. Also included are lists of freemen, colony and court records, notarial records, town records, vital records, land records, church records and journals and letters. BW6, JET, L1, L10, TL4
"The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635," Vols 1-4. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn; New England Historic Genealogical Society; 1999. M37
"The Great Migration Immigrants to New England 1634-1635," Vol. V M-P. Robert Charles Anderson; New England Historical Genealogical Society; 2007. Index of Surnames, First name, Places, and Ships. M37
"A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States." George T. Flom, Ph.D., Hertiage Books, Inc. 1992. Covers from the earliest beginning down to the year 1848. GF1
"Immigrant Ancestors - A list of 2500 Immigrants to America before 1750." Frederick Adams Virkus, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980. A list of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. This is extracted from volume VII Compendium of American Genealogy. This exerpt lists immigrants whose names were most often mentioned in the original complete work. This list the immigrant, birth and death dates if known, original residence, immigrant ship and residence in America. B17, TL4
"Immigrants to the Middle Colonies." Edited by Michael Tepper/Publisher - Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Very Early Ship lists from the trading post of Mennahatta (Manhattan) in 1614, through hard to locate ships through 1817. The book contains a list of Palatinate Germans who came to England in 1709. This list includes the name of the head of the house, whether he was married, the ages and sex of his children, his religion, and in some cases his profession. The German speling seems intact. I3
"Immigrants to New England 1700-1775." Ethel Stanwood Bolton, 2004, The Essex Institute. Indexed by surname. BW10
"IRISH PASSENGER LISTS" 1847 - 1871. Brian Mitchell, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987. A list of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line and McCorkell Line between 1847 and 1871. RP3
"Luxembourgers in the New World (Volume 1, and 2)." Reprint of Nicholas Gonner work, self published in Iowa in 1889. Nicholas Gonner (1835-1892) came to America in 1866 and began collecting information about the Luxembourger settlements in this country. He was editor of the Luxembourger Gazette and also the Catholic weekly of Iowa. The publication retains the essence of Gonner's study and expands on it. AL1
"Mantle of Elias." M. Leona Nichols, author. Binsford & Mort Publishers, Portland, Oregon 1941. Translation from the original French Catholic Church records beginning at Norway House enroute to the Northwest, beginning in August of 1838. SN4
"Norwegian-American Studies, Volume 29." The Norwegian-American Historical Association, Northfield, MN, 1983. Covers emigration to America from the following areas: Tinn, Sogn, Sunnfjord, fjord district, Dovre, Brønnøy and Vik in Helgeland, Agder and the emigration of 1825. It has chapters on the following: the lynching of Hans Jakob Olson, Sigbørn Obstfelder and Sondre Norheim. It also has an index for volumes 1 through 29. GF1
"Norwegian Immigrants to the United States, Volume Two 1844-1846." Gerhard B. Naeseth, Anundsen Publishing Co., Decorah, Iowa, 1997. Gives a short biography for the immigrants who arrived from Norway in the years: 1844, 1845 and 1846. Also lists the ship sailed on. GF1
"Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600- 1700." John Camden Hotten, Genealogical Publishing Co. 1980. "Emmigrant, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britan to the American plantations from 1600-1700 with their ages, the localities where they formally lived in the Mother Country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars". This is the most famous of all ships' passenger lists and historically the most important single-volume list of English-speaking immigrants of the colonial period. Transcribed from the records of the British State Paper Office, it contains the names of over 11,000 immigrants with their ages, former places of residence, and the names of ships in which they embarked. TL4
"The Original Scots Colonists, 1612-1783." David Dobson, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, Thrid Printing 1995. List immigrant Scots, origin of travel, destination, ship sailed on, dates, occupation. Source of information. BW1
"Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore 1820 - 1835 From Customs Passenger Lists." Michael H. Tepper, Genealogical Publishing Company 1982. Alphabetical list of surnames transcribed from US Customs Passenger Lists. Include alternate spellings of your surname. Many records are from the Abstracts - which DO NOT contain the name of the ship arrived. on. M33
"Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia 1800 - 1819." Tepper and Bently, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1986. LG3
"Passengers to America" Michael Tepper, Genealogical Publ., 1977. This text will only give arrivals to New England through about 1777. They are immigrants from England. If you give me the surname I will check the index and let you know what information is in the text. Please do not ask for information of immigrants from other countries. BW10, SS
"Passengers to America." Edited by Michael Tepper, genealogical publish. co. inc., Baltimore, 1988. These ships' passenger lists originally appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register from 1847 to 1961. They have been excerpted in their entirety, consolidated and indexed by passenger and ship. Most of the immigrants were of British or Irish provenance, and they sailed from London, Liverpool or Bristol and landed in New York or Boston. About 18,000 persons are named in these lists. Arrival dates range from the Mayflower passengers in 1620 through the 1800's. AS2, TL4
"Pennsylvania German Pioneers." Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Picton Press, 1992. Early immigrations to Philadelphia for the years 1727-1808 for mainly German-speaking peoples. This 3-volume set also includes signature facsimilies for those passengers that were able to sign their names. DH1
"Planters of the Commonwealth." Charles Edward Banks; Genealogical Publishing Co; 1997. Includes records of ships and passengers from England to New England 1620 & 1640. Includes a study of Emigration to New England in Colonial times. A9
"Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia 1682 - 1750." Albert Cook Myers, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978. Lists the Quakers that arrived at the Philadelphia Meeting between 1682 & 1750 and gives the information on their Certificate of Removal, which states where they came from. Some cases lists their occupation. A9
"Ships passenger lists Port of Galveston, Texas, 1846-1871." The Galveston County Genealogical Society, 1984. IM
"The Sloopers..Their Ancestry and Posterity." J. Hart Rosdail Photo Press Inc. Broadview, Il. 1961. "The story of the people on the Norwegian Mayflower-The Sloop, 'Restoration.'" A comprehensive history of the 52 "sloopers" who arrived in New York in 1825 thus becoming the first Norwegians of the modern era to immigrate to America. The book contains lengthy family histories with genealogies dating back to the 14th. century, several thousand names and addresses of "slooper" descendants, plus a wealth of other important historical information relating to those who “paved the way” for all later day Norwegian immigrants. (668 pages) Published in cooperation with the Norwegian Slooper Society of America. This book is focused on the 52 Norwegians who immigrated to America in 1825 and settled in upstate New York and then the Fox River Valley in Illinois. It contains several thousand names w/addresses of descendants of those first Norwegians. Since the book was published in 1961, all individuals listed are from the the 40's and 50's. JK3
"Swedish Passenger Arrivals in New York, 1820-1850" Nils William Olsson, Kungl Boktryckeriet P.A. Norstedt & Soner, Stockholm, 1967. Gives names and emigration information on Swedish passengers arriving in the New York 1820-1850. May include family names and information, parish information, arrival/destination information, ship information, etc. These records are ONLY for 1820-1850. PA
"Swedish Passenger Arrivals in the United States, 1820-1850." Nils William Olsson and Erik Wiken, Schmidts Boktryckert AB, Helsingborg, 1995. Gives names and emmigration information on Swedish passengers arriving in the US 1820-1850. May include family names and information, parish information, arrival/destination information, ship information, etc. These records are ONLY for 1820-1850. PA
"The Swiss Emigration Book", Volume 1. Compiled by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler. Listing of emigrants from the 18th and 19th century who migrated from and through Switzerland to America. Sources include emigration records and passport lists from the Cantons of Solthurn, Basel and Aargau. PCT
"The Winthrop Fleet of 1630." Charles Edward Banks; Boston; 1930. An account of the vessels, the voyage, the passengers and their English homes from Original Authorities. M37
"The Winthrop Fleet of 1630," Charles Edward Banks. "An account of the vessels, the voyage, the passengers and their English homes from original authorities." Indexed by names & places. - reprint 1989. LM2
Ellis Island
"The Ellis Island Source Book," by August C. Bolino, 1990. Table of Contents: PART I GROWTH. Chapter I: The History and Growth of Ellis Island. The Enlargement of the Island. Chapter II: Passing Through the Golden Door. Steerage Class; Arriving in 1907; Conditions on the Other Side; America in World War I and After; Movement to Restrict Immigration; Depression and More Deportations; The League of Abandoned Wives; War Comes Again; The Coast Guard on Ellis Island; The Last Days of Ellis Island; Tragedies of Immigration Laws; The Isle of Tears; Who Shall Apologize. Chapter III: Immigrant Arrivals and Departures. Introduction; Immigrant Arrivals; Why Did They Come?; Immigrant Destinations; The Return Migrants; Aliens Deported. Chapter IV: Some People Who Worked There. Keepers of the Gate; They Also Served; Immigrant Aid Societies; A Brief Backward Look. PART II: DECAY AND RESTORATION. Chapter V: The Restoration Commissions. ... PART III: Sources. Chapter VI: Ellis Island Documents. Federal Records; Records Outside of Washington; Multi-cultural Immigration Records; Papers of Specific Ethnic Groups; Church Records; Other Records; Ethnic Presses; Fraternal Organisations; The International Institutes; Foreign Sources; The Canadian Archives. Chapter VII: Oral Histories. Federal Histories; Other Oral Histories. Chapter VIII: Ellis Island and the Search for Roots. Genealogical Resources; An Annotated Bibliography; Genealogy by Ethnic Groups. Chapter IX: Films, Photos and Visuals. Early Silent Films and Documentaries; The News Companies; More Recent Films; Other Visuals. PART IV: THE ELLIS ISLAND HALL OF FAME. Chapter X: The Famous and Not-So-Famous. Art and Architucture; Business; Entertainment; Labor; Law; Music; Religion; Sports; Science; Some Undistinguished Americans. PART V: END MATTERS. Chapter XI: Appendices. Additional Bibliography. JAGP
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