Immigration & Ships

Information on how our Ancestors got away from and arrived in their destination countries.

 

Many of these items are links to sites outside of PolishRoots, so we appreciate a heads up if a link is broken.

Emigration

• Antwerp Alien Registrations
  The site is in Flemish.  If your ancestor came on a ship from Antwerp then they may appear in these indices
• Bremen Passenger Lists 1920-1939
• Hamburg BallinStadt Museum
  "Hamburg as City of Emigrants" The records from 1850-1934 are now available on Ancestry.com
• Hamburg Hafen (Harbor) Images
  These images are courtesy of Edward David Luft
• Hamburg: European Rates of Fare
  A list containing the prices from many European rail heads to Hamburg
• Old Homes of New Americans
  The Country and the People of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Their Contribution to the New World
• Soviet Archival Sources for the study of Emigration from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Immigration

United States

• The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
• Boston Passenger Records  
  This site lists the NARA and FHL film numbers for indexes and the actual passenger records
• Canada Border Crossings
• Ellis Island Passenger Records
  The Official website of the Ellis Island Foundation and the index to the ship arrival lists for 1892-1924 when most of our immigrant ancestors arrived in North America
• Ellis Island Database record search in One Step
  A great tool that makes searching the Ellis Island Foundation records database much easier
• History of Castle Garden and Ellis Island
• Immigration History Research Center
  A useful source on immigration and ethnic history in America
• Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
  Annotations made on passenger lists at time of arrival of immigrant
• Index of 1890 New York Immigrants from Austria, Poland, and Galicia
• New York Passenger Lists 1820-1897
  A list of microfilm numbers available from the LDS for the listed period
• Texas Seaport Museum
  Listing of immigrants to Galveston, Texas between 1844-1954
• U.S. Passenger Arrival Lists 
  A list of microfilm numbers for passenger arrival manifests available at the US National Archives, including Canadian border crossings

Canada

• Immigration to Canada
  Lots of information about ships arriving in Canada during the 19th century along with info for other countries
• Immigration Records (1865-1935)
  From Library and Archives Canada
• Pier 21
  At Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront, 1.5 million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil

Argentina

• Emigration and Immigration

Australia

• International Refugee Organisation
  A list of European refugees destined for Australia in 1950

Brazil

• Emigration and Immigration
• Polish Census

Ships

• PolishRoots' Passenger Ship Lists Index
• Steamship Historical Society
  They have the largest archive for ship photos that we know of in the United States
• Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online
  Includes an online version of the Morton Allen Directory which is used to locate ship arrivals by port, date, by ship's name
• The Great Ocean Liners
• Immigrant Ships
  Ship descriptions collected by the site owner
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
  This site has transcribed lists of ships of potential interest to PolishRoots users (i.e., Post-war refugee resettlements from Europe to Australia).
• Lost Liners
• Maritime Museums
• Maritime Timetable Images  
  Images of passenger ship brochures
• National Archives (US) Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals
• New Steamship Consultants
  Commercial site selling passenger ship memorabilia
• Ocean Liner Museum
• Ships Database
• The Ships Encyclopedia
• The Ships List
• SS St. Louis
  A moving narrative of the voyage of this ship from Europe to Cuba

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