Ship Passenger Lists

Bibliography of resources and indexes

How to research passenger list

Bibliography of published lists

Indexes of lists

Further information online

 

How to research passenger list

The best, and very interesting: Tepper, Michael American passenger arrival records: a guide to the records of immigrants GPC, 1988

Quick and easy: Colleta, John P. They came in ships, 1989, Ancestry

Greenwood, V. The Researcher's guide to American genealogy, 3rd. ed. GPC,2000 pp. 532-547

Szucs, Loretto D. The Source: a guidebook of American genealogy, revised ed. Ancestry, 1997 pp. 463-472

National Archives Trust Fund Board. Guide to genealogical research at the National Archives, 2nd ed. , 1985 chapter 2: "Passenger arrival records."

Bibliographies and directories

Lancour, Harold. A bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825, being a guide to published lists of early immigrants to North America, 3rd. ed. revised and enlarged, New York Public Library, 1963.

revised and expanded in

Filby, William P. Passenger and Immigration lists bibliography, 1538-1900: being a guide to published lists of arrivals in the United States and Canada, Gale Research C., 1981 (this may be out of print)

Morton-Allan directory of European passenger steamship arrivals at the Port of New York, 1890-1930, and at the Ports of Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia, 1904-1926. New York, Immigration Information Bureau, 1931.

National Archives Trust Fund Board. Immigrant and passenger arrivals: a select catalog of National Archives microfilm publications. NATF, 1983.

Index of published lists

Filby and Meyers, Passenger and immigration index a reference guide to published lists of about 500,000 passengers who arrived in America in the seventeenth, eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, Gale Group, 1982 in 3 volumes, plus annual supplements

Further information online

IMMIGRATION AND SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS RESEARCH GUIDE done for the Bergen Co. NJ Genealogical Society by Arnie Lang. It is an excellent lesson on this topic, with lots of links and examples.