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Best of the Web: History & Social Sciences » Genealogy » Immigration & Ships Passenger Lists
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Castle Garden Immigration Center, 1820-1892
Database of more than 10 million immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1830 through 1892.
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Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online
Online collection of databases comprised of the Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals, National Archives microfilm publications, and other sources. This is not adatabase of passenger names but of ships.
- Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals: American Family Immigration History Center
- Emigration & Immigration Records & Links
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Immigrant Ancestors Project
Sponsored by the Center for Family History & Genealogy at Brigham Young University, this database uses emigration registers to locate information about immigrants in their native countries. Work in progress.
- Immigrant Servants Database
- Manifest Markings - A Guide to Interpreting U.S. Passenger List Annotations
- Ships Passenger Lists Research Guide
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U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Records
The USCIS has records of millions of American immigrants who immigrated and arrived in the United States after 1892 and were naturalized between 1906 and 1956. (formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

