Your Guide to Finding

Your Ancestors'

Passports and Passort Applications

Passports obtained in the U.S.

• examples
  • 1920 passport application
• U.S. Passport Application for Margaret Coyle Gibson -- and part 2. An interesting blog in two parts that talks about finding information on passport applications and highlights differences in what you might obtain from using more than one source.
• Passport collection at Ancestry.com (subscription database, but you can search for free)
  • About the passport collection at Ancestry.colm
  • GenealogyGems podcast: Passports (give it time-- about 5 minutes of advertising at the beginning)
• Guide to Finding Passports
• NARA. Passports

Passpors obtained in other countries

• Examples
  • Bukovina Passports from 1899
  • 1871 Austrian passport
  • 1907 Hungarian passport
  • 1923 German passport (scroll down)
• Jewish Genealogical Society
  • Lithuania Internal Passports Database 1919-1940
  • Polish Aliyah Passports