These passenger lists and migration records can help you trace where your ancestors went — whether to the United States, Australia, Canada or beyond — and how they made the journey.
General
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British & Irish Roots
This collection of nearly 100 million records includes British & Irish emigrants. The records are taken from passenger lists, census records, draft registrations, naturalisation applications and more.
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Immigrant Ships
Immigrant Ships has over 12,000 passenger manifests in 13 volumes plus numerous other passengers listed in special projects. A great site for migration records and passenger lists.
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The Ships List Archived
The Ships List website will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists. It also has immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and South Africa.
To the United States
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Ellis Island Passenger Lists
Search and view free passenger lists and records for arrivals at the port of New York. Registration is required to view the original records but it's completely free.
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United States Passenger and Crew Lists
This collection has over 100 million records of people who arrived in America by ship or plane.
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Irish Emigration Database
Contains the names of people who sailed from Ireland to the U.S. in the 19th century.
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Immigrant Servants Database
Passenger arrivals for people who went to Colonial America as indentured servants, redemptioners, and transported convicts between 1607 and 1820.
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Immigrant Ancestors Project
Search and view records for those who arrived in the U.S. from various parts of Europe.
From the UK
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Passenger Lists Leaving the UK
Search more than 24 million records of those that left the UK and Ireland between 1890 and 1960.
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Scottish Emigration Database
Currently contains the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.
Additional Records
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To Australia
Peter Larson's index of shipping arrivals and departures, with more than 92,000 alphabetical passenger list entries linked to transcripts of the passenger lists.
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To Canada
A project of the Nanaimo Family History Centre indexing arrivals at Quebec from 1900 to around 1921, comprising 626,150 listings from 1,173 ship arrivals.
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To England
A fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England between 1330 and 1550 — during the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
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To South America
An indexed collection of records from Argentina documenting thousands of British and English-speaking residents. Includes baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials from Anglican, Scots Presbyterian and Methodist churches, plus Argentine census returns and contemporary publications.