

REFERENCE GUIDES



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION



ISSN 0163-1357                                    No. 6



IMMIGRANT ARRIVALS

A Guide to Published Sources



Compiled by Virginia Steele Wood

Local History and Genealogy Reading Room



A new surge of interest in the subject of immigration--embarkation

from the Old World, the voyage, arrival, and adjustment in America-

-has been sparked in recent years by the nation's bicentennial in

1976 and publicity surrounding restoration of both the Statue of

Liberty, unveiled in 1986, and the Ellis Island Immigration Station

that was in operation from 1892 to 1954.  These two significant

historical landmarks attracted the attention of millions of

Americans throughout the nation during a particularly memorable

televise celebration in New York City on the Fourth of Jul 1986. 

In 1992 the Ellis Island Restoration Commission plans to open a

Family History Center in conjunction with the Ellis Island

Centennial; its intent is to provide for public use a computer

database containing such data as the names, physical

characteristics, country of origin, place of embarkation, and name

of ship of all individuals who passed through the island's

immigration facility during the period 1892-1954.



In the study of immigration history, ship passenger lists have

become increasingly important sources of data for historians,

demographers, biographers, and genealogists.  This is particularly

true in the United States where forebears of all but native

American Indians arrived by ship from colonial times until the

advent and popularity of air travel.  Between the years 1607 and

1902, it is estimated that over thirty million immigrants came to

these shores; during the past two centuries, over half of them came

through the port of New York.  



Although a number of passenger lists have survived from the

colonial period through the early part of the nineteenth century,

there was no uniform code or system or even requirement to document

incoming passengers until after the War of 1812.  On March 2, 1819,

Congress passed an Act Regulating Passenger Vessels (ch. 46, 3

Stat., 489) designed to protect passengers arriving from foreign

ports against overcrowding and inadequate provisions, as well as to

proved statistical data on foreign trade.  Section 5 of this act

required the ships' masters to file with the district collector of

customs a manifest (or list) of all passengers who boarded at a

foreign port.  It was to include each passenger's name, age, sex,

and occupation;  the country to which he or she belonged; the

country of which he or she intended to become an inhabitant; an a

list of deaths that occurred during the voyage.



On March 3, 1853, Congress passed legislation designated an Act to

Regulate the Carriage of Passengers in Steamships and Other Vessels

(ch. 213, 10 Stat., 715).  In addition to requirements covered by

the Act of 1819, it specified the requirements for health and

safety and ships' masters were to indicate the class in which each

passenger traveled--cabin or steerage.



Throughout the following decade as immigration of foreign laborers

was encouraged, legislation was passed to protect their rights. 

Beginning in the 1870s, a backlash against the importation of

contract labor developed and restrictive legislation was passed

excluding those considered undesirable, such as lunatics, idiots,

the indigent, and those convicted of political offenses.  In the

twentieth century, as additional restrictions were placed on

immigration, significantly more data were collected about each

immigrant admitted in the United States.



Documents created under these and other congressional acts that

have particular significance for researchers are the Customs

Passenger Lists of 1820-1905, and the Immigration Passenger Lists

of 1883-1945.  Some indexes for these lists are available at the

National Archives and Records Administration, 8th Street and

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408.  In addition, the

Archives has a few baggage lists and cargo manifests that name

passengers as early as 1798, but they are fragmentary.  A

discussion of these surviving lists, transcripts, and copies, the

ports for which they were available, and their limitations and

significance for researchers is found in the _Guide to Genealogical

Research in the National Archives_ (Washington, National Archives

and Records Service, 1982) p. 41-57.



No lists were required for people entering the United States

overland form Canada and Mexico until Congress passed the

Immigration Act of 1891 (ch. 26, Stat., 1084).  In addition to

excluding those suffering form "loathsome or contagious diseases," 

the Law provided for medical examinations at what became the first

United states immigration inspection stations along the Canadian

border.  It was calculated that approximately forty percent of the

passengers arriving in Canada were bound for the United States.



In 1909, District 1 of the U.S. Immigration Service was established

at Montreal and encompassed the entire Canadian border.  The

headquarters were later moved to St. Albans, Vermont, where the

Immigration and Naturalization Service microfilmed its five series

of immigrant records and Soundex indexes covering the period 1895

to 1954.  That material is now available as a microfilm publication

from the National Archives and Records Administration (address

above).



In 1978, after thee National Archives had microfilmed many of their

passenger manifests, the originals were loaned to Temple University

in Philadelphia for the purpose of compiling statistics on the

social, economic, and genetic aspects of immigration, a project

directed by Dr. Ira A Glazier.  Subsequently this effort became a

joint project of the newly established Temple-Balch Center for

Immigration Research.  For convenience all the manifests were

deposited at the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies where storage

facilities were available for the thousands of large bound volumes

weighing a total of approximately eleven tons.  



In transcribing data from these passenger lists to computer

terminals, Dr. Glazier acceded to a request that his team include

information to benefit those involved in research concerning

immigration and immigrant ancestors.  The initial result was a

computerized list of passengers that was published as _The Famine

Immigrants:  Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New

York, 1846-1851._ 7 vol. (Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983-

1986).



Dr. Glazier's team is currently working on lists of German

immigrants, 1850-1890; East European immigrants, 1880-1913; and

Italian immigrants, 1880-1913.  The first publication resulting

from this second major undertaking is a series of volumes entitled

_Germans to America:  Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports,

1850-1855 (Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 1988-).  While his work

is in progress, it is important to note that under no circumstances

can the Temple-Balch Center conduct any research or respond to any

questions about individuals whose names may appear on the original

passenger manifests.



Many passenger lists, created both before and after passage of the

act 1819, have been published in a wide variety of books, journal

articles, and special publications.  An early attempt to locate

them and to index the ships' names was made in 1938 by Harold

Lancour, who compiled _A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists,

1538-1835; a third edition was revised and enlarged by Richard J.

Wolfe (New York, New York Public Library, 1963).



Beginning in the 1980s, P. William Filby and Mary K. Meyer launched

a project to consolidate all known published passenger lists and

edit a master index of names from these lists.  The result was a

three volume work, _Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.  A Guide

to Published Arrival Records of About 500,000 Passengers Who Came

to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and

Nineteenth Centuries (Detroit, Gale Research Co, 1981); annual

supplement have been issued since 1982.  Currently these volumes

include some 1,275,000 names taken from approximately nine hundred

sources.  Since the plan is to publish annually one supplement of

approximately 125,000 names, the editor's intention is to include

small passenger lists form such sources as journal articles and

books.  Hence, the names from very large undertakings such as the

seven-volume _Famine Immigrants, 1846-1851_, will be included some

years in the future.



It is important for researchers to be aware of the companion works

compiled by P. William Filby, _Passenger and Immigration Lists

Bibliography, 1538-1900, Being a Guide to published Lists of

Arrivals in the United States and Canada (Detroit, Gale Research

Co., 1981) and its supplement (1984), which together contain some

two thousand sources.  Hundreds of passenger lists not yet included

in the _Passenger Lists Index_ are cited.  Because these major

publications are available in many research libraries, no attempt

is made in this reference guide to duplicate that effort.



Interesting in immigrant ancestors has gone far beyond finding

names on ship passenger lists.  Today's researcher is often keen to

discover motivations for leaving the mother country, to find first-

hand descriptions of the crossing, to ferret out information about

particular immigrant ships, and to study conditions encountered on

arrival in the New World and the dispersal of various ethnic groups

throughout the country.  This guide is provided as an introduction

to the type and variety of books available concerning these topics,

including recent publications and reprints of earlier works.



Passenger Lists



Baca, Leo.

CZECH IMMIGRATION PASSENGER LISTS / by Leo Baca. -- Halletsville,

Tex.: Old Homestead Pub. Co., ; Richardson Tex. : L. Baca,

c1983-[c1985]. --2 v.: ill. 

                                        E184.B67 B32 1983 LH&G



Includes bibliographies.



Lists the names of more than 13,300 Czech passengers who arrived at

the ports of Galveston between 1846 and 1891 and from 1896 to 1906,

New Orleans, from 1852 to 1899, and New York and Baltimore in 1879.

Data include name and age; country of origin (in many instances

town or village); name of ship, and date and port of arrival.



Burgert, Annette K.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EMIGRANTS FROM GERMAN-SPEAKING LANDS TO NORTH

AMERICA / by Annette Kunselman Burgert. -- Breinigsville, Pa.:

Pennsylvania German Society, 1983- < 1985 >.--v. < 1-2 >: ill.--

(Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society; v. 16, <19 >)  

                                        GR110.P4 A372 vol. 16 LH&G 



Contents: v. 1. The Northern Kraichgau--v. 2. The Western

Palalinate--



Cassady, Michael.

NEW YORK PASSENGER ARRIVALS, 1849-1868: passenger lists /

transcribed by Michael Cassady; Sylvia Nimmo, editor. --Papillion,

Neb.: S. Nimmo, c1983. --xiv, 118 p.: ill. 

                                        CS68 .C35 1983 LH&G 



Lists were transcribed from microfilm copies at the National

Archives, of the original lists at the National Immigration

Archives at Temple University, Philadelphia.



Coldham, Peter Wilson.

BONDED PASSENGERS TO AMERICA / by Peter Wilson Coldham. --

Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983.--9 v. in 3: ill.

                                        CS61 .C62 1983 LH&G



Contents: v. 1. History of transportation, 1615-1775--v. 2.

Middlesex, 1617-1775--v. 3. London, 1656-1775 -- v. 4. Home

counties, 1655-1775--v. 5. Western Circuit, 1664-1775-- v. 6.

Oxford Circuit, 1663-1775--v. 7. Norfolk Circuit, 1663-1775 -- v.

8. Northern Circuit, 1665-1775 -- v. 9. Midland Circuit, 1671-1775.



Concerned with the deportation of some fifty thousand convicted

felons from England to America during the period 1615 to 1775. Vol.

1 provides historical background of the convicts, while Vol. 2

includes descriptions of their prisons, comments on those who

dispensed justice, and descriptions of common business practices

pertaining to the transporting of immigrants.



Coldham, Peter Wilson.

ENGLISH ADVENTURERS AND EMIGRANTS, 1609-1660: abstracts of

examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to

Colonial America / Peter Wilson Coldham.-- Baltimore: Genealogical

Pub. Co., 1984.--iii, 219 p.

                                        E184.B7 C6 1984 LH&G 



Abstracts of records concerning early immigration, trade,

colonizing activities, and ventures of individuals and private

companies. Data are included as well for the Virginia, Plymouth,

Newfoundland, and Canada companies.



THE FAMINE IMMIGRANTS: lists of Irish immigrants arriving at the

port of New York, 1846-1851 / Ira A. Glazier, editor; Michael

Tepper, associate editor. --Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

1983-1986.--7 v.

                                        E184.I6 F25 1983 LH&G



Includes bibliographical references and indexes.



Contents: v. 1.January 1846-June 1847--v. 2. July 1847-June 1848--

v. 3. July 1848-March 1849--v. 4. April 1849-September 1849--v. 5.

October 1849-May 1850--v. 6. June 1850-March 1851 --v. 7. April

1851-December 1851.



The Great Potato Famine, brought on by a blight that struck the

potato crop, reduced nearly all of Ireland to poverty. Between 1846

and 1851 over a million men, women, and children immigrated to the

United States and Canada, the majority of them entering through the

port of New York. This work provides a chronological listing of

more than 651,931 passengers with name, age, sex, occupation, date

of arrival, port of embarkation, and name of vessel on which each

immigrant arrived.



Filby, P. William.

PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1538-1900: being a

guide to published lists of arrivals in the United States and

Canada / edited by P. William Filby. -- 1 st ed. -- Detroit, Mich:

Gale Research Co, c1981.-- 195 p.

                                        Z5313.U5 F54 1981 LH&G 



A revision of _A Bibliography of ship passenger lists_, 1538-1825/ 

compiled by Harold Lancour. 3rd ed. / rev. and enl. by Richard J.

Wolfe, 1963.  Gives "full bibliographic information for more than

2,550 published passenger and immigration lists.



Filby, P. William.

PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS INDEX: a guide to published arrival

records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States

and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries

/ edited by P. William Filby, with Mary K. Meyer. -- 1st ed. --

Detroit, Mich: Gale Research Co, c1981.--3 v. (xxxv, 2,339 P.)

                                        CS68 . F537 1981 LH&G



Includes bibliographies.



Contents: v. 1. A-G--v. 2. H-N--v. 3. O-Z. Alphabetical listing of

many passengers who arrived in North America and the West Indies

between 1538 and 1900, compiled from published passenger lists and

published naturalization records. Entries include name, age, year

of arrival or naturalization, and abbreviation for the biblio-

graphic citation with volume and page numbers. Approximately

125,000 names are added annually in published supplements.



GERMANS TO AMERICA: lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports,

1850-1855 / edited by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby.--

Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, cl988- . -- < 1-2 >: ill. 

                                        E184.G3 G38 1988 LH&G 



Contents: v. l.January 1850-May 1851--v. 2. May 1851-June 1852--



Approximately seventy thousand names are listed in each volume.

Passenger lists are arranged chronologically by date of ship

arrival followed by an alphabetical index of passengers. "Every

passenger is identified by full name, age, sex, occupation,

destination and when . . . available [the] country, province, or

town of origin."



Hall, Charles M.

THE ATLANTIC BRIDGE TO GERMANY / by Charles M. Hall. -- Logan,

Utah: Everton Publishers, c1974-< 1978 > .--v. < 1-5 >: ill. 

                                        CS614 .H34 LH&G



Bibliography: v. 4, p. 7.



Contents: v. 1. Baden-Wuerttemberg--v. 2. Hessen. Rheinland-Pfalz

(The Palatinate)--v. 3. Bavaria (Bayern).-- v. 4. Saarland. Alsace-

Lorraine, Switzerland.--v. 5. Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg. Bremen.



Hall, Charles M.

THE "PALATINE PAMPHLET" / by Charles M. Hall.--[s.l.]: Hall,

[197-]. --[19] p.

                                        CS49. H34 LH&G



Hume, Robert.

EARLY CHILD IMMIGRANTS TO VIRGINIA, 1618-1642/ copied from the

records of Bridewell Royal Hospital by Robert Hume.--Baltimore:

Magna Carta Book Co, 1986. --x, 52 p.

                                        F225 .H86 1986 LH&G



Bibliography: p. ix.



Includes the names of "468 street children who were sent to the

colonies at the request of the Virginia Company, mostly in the

1620s."



Kaminkow, Jack

A LIST OF EMIGRANTS FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA, 1718-1759/ by Jack and

Marion Kaminkow by courtesy of the Corporation of London.--New ed.-

-Baltimore,: Magna Carta Book Co, 1981, c1964.--xxviii, 292 p.

                                        E187.5 .K3 1981 LH&G 



"Transcribed from microfilms of the original records at the

Guildhall, London."  



Three thousand names are listed here.



LUXEMBOURGERS IN THE NEW WORLD: a reedition based on the work of

Nicholas Gonner, "Die Luxemburger in der Neuen Welt," Dubuque,

Iowa, 1889: published with a complete index / Jean Ensch,

Jean-Claude Muller, Robert E. Owen (editors); original translations

by Gerald L. Liebenau and Jean-Claude Muller.-- Esch-sur-Alzette,

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: Editions-Reliures Schortgen, 1987. -- 2

v.:  ill.

                                        E 184. L88 L89 1987

Vol. 1 includes a discussion of Luxembourger emigration, between

1840 and 1890 with comment on their settlements, occupations, and

activities in the United States. Vol. 2 is principally an index to

approximately four thousand personal and place names cited in the

_Luxembourger Gazette_ (Dubuque, Iowa) from 1872 to 1892.



McManus, J.

COMAL COUNTY, TEXAS AND NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS GERMANS, 1845-1846 /

by J. McManus.--[St. Louis?]: F. T. Ingmire; San Antonio:

Distributed by Family Adventures, c1985.--58 p.

                                        F392.C7 M35 1985 LH&G 



Over two thousand names are included.



Olsson, Nils William.

SWEDISH PASSENGER ARRIVALS IN NEW YORK 1820-1850. -- Stockholm: PA

Norstedt & Shoners Fhorlag, 1967.--xx, 391 p.: ill. (some col.),

facsims., ports. -- (Acta Bibliothecae Regiae Stockholmiensis; 6)

                                        Z674 .S8 no. 6 LH&G 



Bibliography: p. 386-390.



PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN IMMIGRANTS, 1709-1786 : lists consolidated from

yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society / edited by

Don Yoder.--Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1980.--xi, 394 p.:

ill.

                                        F160.G3 P.43 LH&G



Prins, Edward.

DUTCH AND GERMAN SHIPS: PASSENGER LISTS, 1846-1856 -- [Holland,

Mich.?]: E. Prins, 1972. --ca. 300 leaves.

                                        F574.H6 P75 1972 LH&G 



In 1887 some forty years after their arrival, Dutch and German

immigrants in Zeeland, Michigan, listed seventy-three ships which

brought them to the United States during the periods from 1846 to

1849, and 1852 to 1856. They also compiled lists of twelve thousand

names from passenger manifests of those vessels .



Rasmussen, Louis J .

SAN FRANCISCO SHIP PASSENGER LISTS / by Louis J. Rasmussen. --

Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1978-

                                        CS68 .R37 1978 LH&G 



Four volumes of a projected fifteen-volume set aimed to cover the

period 1850 to 1875. The lists were reconstructed principally from

newspaper notices of ship arrivals because official government

records of entry were destroyed by fire.



RHINELAND EMIGRANTS: lists of German settlers in colonial America

/ edited by Don Yoder. -- Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1981.--

xii, 170 p.: ill.

                                        E184.G3 R44 LH&G



Includes four thousand names in excerpts reprinted from articles in

_Pennsylvania Folklife_ from 1966 to 1977



Schenk, Trudy.

THE WUERTTEMBERG EMIGRATION INDEX / by Trudy Schenk, Ruth Froelke,

and Inge Bork.-- Salt Lake City : Ancestry Inc., 1986-< 1988 > .--

v. < 1-4 >: ill.

                                        CS627.W86 S34 1986



Each volume of this projected eight-volume set includes

approximately twelve thousand names of people listed in the

nineteenth-century immigration registers of Wuerttemberg, Germany.

Data include date and place of birth, date of emigration applica-

tion, destination, home district of the applicant, and number of

the microfilmed originals at the Genealogical Society of Utah.



SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS, PORT OF GALVESTON, TEXAS, 1846-1871.--

Easley, S.C: Southern Historical Press, c1984. -- 131, [32] p.

                                        F385 .S53 1984 



Includes over nine thousand names.



Swierenga, Robert P.

DUTCH IMMIGRANTS IN U.S. SHIP PASSENGER MANIFESTS, 1820-1880: an

alphabetical listing by household heads and independent persons /

compiled by Robert P. Swierenga.--Wilmington: Scholarly Resources,

1983. --2 v. (xliv, 1,223 p.)

                                        E184.D9 S95 1983 LH&G 



Coded computer listing of some one hundred thousand passenger

manifests, chronologically arranged by date of arrival. Information

about each passenger includes name, relationship in the household,

sex, age, occupation, destination, country of origin, name of

vessel, date of arrival, port of embarkation, port of arrival, and

accommodation aboard. Approximately fifty-five thousand names are

included.



Tepper, Michael.

PASSENGER ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OF BALTIMORE, 1820-1834: from

customs passenger lists / general editor, Michael H. Tepper;

transcribed by Elizabeth P. Bentley.--Baltimore: Genealogical Pub.

Co., 1982.--xxiii, 768 p.: ill.

                                        CS68 .T46 1982 LH&G 



Some fifty thousand names are listed here.



Tepper, Michael.

PASSENGER ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, 1800-1819: the

Philadelphia baggage lists / general editor, Michael H. Tepper;

transcribed by Elizabeth P. Bentley. -- Baltimore: Genealogical

Pub. Co., 1986.--xvii, 913 p.

                                        CS68 .T464 1986 LH&G 



The "baggage" lists were the result of exempting in-coming

passengers from paying duty on their personal belongs as specified

in an act passed by Congress on March 2, 1799. Approximately forty

thousand entries are alphabetically arranged by surnames of

passengers followed by names of the vessels on which they sailed

and their dates of arrival. A separate alphabetical index lists the

ships with their ports and dates of embarkation. Historical

background and a critical evaluation of these lists are provided in

the introduction.



TRACKING IMMIGRANT ORIGANS--IN _The Source:  a guidebook of

American genealogy / edited by Arllene Eakle and Johni Cerny. --

Salt Lake City:  Ancestry Pub. Co._ 1984. -- p. 452-517.: ill.

                                        CS49 .S65 1984 LH&G



Includes bibliographies and indexes.



This chapter includes descriptions of passenger lists, oaths of

allegiance, naturalization records, finding aids, special

collections, and bibliographies (country by country), along with

discussion of approaches to doing research. Table 15-3 "Historical

Summary of U.S. Naturalization Provisions," lists acts pertaining

to naturalization, residence requirement in years, and eligibility,

with some interpretative comments.



United States. National Archives and Records Service.



GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. --

Washington, D.C: National Archives and Records Service, 1982. --

xiii, 304 p.: ill. (some col.), facsims.

                                        Z5313.U5 U54 1982 LH&G 



Includes bibliographies and index.



Chapter Two includes sections on passenger arrival lists, types of

passenger lists, special notes by port of entry, and available

passenger arrival records. The work is illustrated with photographs

of an 1820 and a 1907 passenger list.



United States. National Archives and Records Service .



IMMIGRANT AND PASSENGER ARRIVALS: a select catalog of National

Archives microfilm publications.--Washington: National Archives

Trust Fund Board, U.S. General Services Administration, 1983. --xi,

46 p.

                                        Z5305.U5 U54 1983 LH&G



Discusses original passenger lists, State Department transcripts,

and immigration passenger manifests, with special notes on ports of

entry and a list of available passenger arrival records.



Wareing, John.

EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA: indentured servants recruited in London,

1718-1733 / John Wareing.--Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co.,

1985.--111 p.

                                        CS59 .W37 1985 LH&G 



Includes the names of 1,544 indentured servants .



Whyte, Donald.

 A DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS TO CANADA BEFORE CONFEDERATION

/ Donald Whyte. -- Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986. -

xvi, 443 p.

                                        CS83 .W48 1986 LH&G 



Bibliography: p. 439-443.



This work "contains 12,501 entries, which with dependents not

separately listed, records over 30,000 names. " Many of these

emigrants settled first in Canada before Confederation in 1867, and

then moved to the United States.



Whyte, Donald.

A DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS TO THE U.S.A.--Baltimore: Magna

Carta Book Co., 1972-1986.--2 v.

                                        E184.S3 W49 LH&G 



Includes bibliographies and indexes.



Vol. 1 includes approximate 6,480 names; Vol. 2 provides "names and

other details" of a thousand Scots who immigrated to Canada prior

to 1867 as well as "additional material relating to 170 emigrants

who were listed in Volume 1."



Zimmerman, Gary J.

GERMAN IMMIGRANTS: lists of passengers bound from Bremen to New

York, 1847-1854, with places of origin I compiled by Gary J.

Zimmerman & Marion Wolfert.--Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

1985.--xxiv, 175 p.

                                        E184.G3 Z56 1985 LH&G



Allied bombing raids during World War II destroyed the original

lists of emigrants embarking from Bremen, a serious loss since this

port "handled three times as many emigrants as Hamburg." Included

in this work are the names of thirty-five thousand emigrants who

arrived at the port of New York during the period from 1847 to

1854; names were taken from the records at the National Archives.

The data include name, age, date of arrival, place of origin, and

citations for name of ship.



THE IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE



Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, 1896-

THE RISE OF NEW YORK PORT (1815-1860) / by Robert Greenhalgh

Albion; with the collaboration of Jennie Barnes Pope. -- New York:

C. Scribner's sons, 1939. -- xiv p., 485 p.: ill., tables, front.,

plates, ports., maps .

                                        HE554.N7 A6 

Bibliography: p. [423]-470.



Reprinted in New York by Scribner in 1970 and in Newton Abbot by

David & Charles in 1970.



Chapter 16, "Human Freight" discusses immigrants arriving at the

port of New York from Europe.



Coleman, Terry.

GOING TO AMERICA. --[lst American ed.]. -- New York: Pantheon

Books, [1972].--317 p.: ill.

                                        JV7618.N7 C58 1972



Bibliography: p. [251]-286.



Greenhill, Basil.

THE GREAT MIGRATION: crossing the Atlantic under sail. -- London:

H.M.S.O. [for the] National Maritime Museum, 1968.--32 p.: ill.,

facsims., maps.

                                        JV6451 .G73



Greenhill, Basil.

TRAVELLING BY SEA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: interior design in

Victorian passenger ships / [by] Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard.--

New York: Hastings House Publishers, [1974, c1972].--vii, 168 p.:

ill.

                                        HE599.G73 1974 



Profusely illustrated descriptions of accommodations in wooden

sailing ships, early steamships, paddle steamers, and "travelling

palaces."



Guillet, Edwin Clarence, 1898-

THE GREAT MIGRATION: the Atlantic crossing by sailing-ship since

1770/ by Edwin C. Guillet.-- Toronto; New York: T. Nelson and sons,

1937.--xii, 284 p.: front., plates.

                                       JV645 1 .G8 



"Source References": p. 249-256; Bibliography: p. 257-274.

LC copy replaced by microfilm (61521 JV).



Reprinted in New York byJ. S. Ozer in 1971.



Hansen, Marcus Lee, 1892-1938

THE ATLANTIC MIGRATION, 1607-1860: a history of the continuing

settlement of the United States / by Marcus Lee Hansen; edited with

a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger. -- Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

University Press, 1940.--xvii, 391 p.: ill., front., plate.

                                        JV6451 . H3 



"Bibliography and Notes:" p. [309]-371.



Hinte, Jacob van, 1889-1948

NETHERLANDERS IN AMERICA: a study of emigration and settlement in

the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States of

America / Jacob Van Hinte; Robert P. Swierenga, general editor;

Adriaan de Wit, chief translator. -- Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Book

House, c1985.--2 v. in 1 (xlviii, 1,157 p.): ill., maps.

                                        E184.D9 H613 1985 LH&G 



Bibliography: p. 1099-1114.



Proclaims itself the "only comprehensive history of Dutch

settlement in America written by a Netherlander, from the

perspective of a Netherlander, and intended for a Netherlandic

readership.



Jones, Maldwyn Allen.

DESTINATION AMERICA / Maldwyn A. Jones.-- London: Weidenfeld and

Nicolson, cl976. -- 256 p.: ill.

                                        JV6450.J62 1976 



Bibliography: p. 251-252.



Focuses on 150 years of mass European immigration to America

beginning in 1815 and concentrates "on the people who contributed

the greatest numbers to the confluent tides of immigration: the

Irish, British, Germans, Scandinavians, Italians, and

east-EuropeanJews."



MIGRATION ACROSS TIME AND NATIONS: population mobility in

historical contexts / edited by Ira A. Glazier and Luigi De Rosa. -

- New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. --viii, 384 p.: ill.

                                        JV6021 .M53 1986 LH&G 



Twenty-two papers were presented on "History, Models and Methods in

Migration Research" at the Eighth International Congress on

Economic History held in Budapest in 1982.



Miller, Olga K.

MIGRATION, EMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION: principally to the United

States and in the United States / by Olga K. Miller. -- Logan,

Utah: Everton, c1974-<c1981 >.--v. <1-2 >: maps.

                                        Z5313.U5 M62 LH&G 



Includes bibliographies and indexes.



A bibliography arranged alphabetically by country, and by

religious, ethnic, and refugee groups. Outline maps are included.



Novotony, Ann.

STRANGERS AT THE DOOR: Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and the great

migration to America.-- Riverside, Conn.: Chatham Press, [1971].--

160 p.: ill.

                                        JV6450 . N6 



Bibliography: p. 152-153.



Includes four "picture essays."



Shepperson Wilbur Stanley.

BRITISH EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA: projects and opinions in the

early Victorian period.-- Oxford: Blackwell, 1957.--xvi, 302 p.:

ill., facsims., tables.

                                        JV6614 .S44 



In the century between 1815 and the eve of World War I, some

seventeen million persons immigrated from Great Britain,

approximately eighty percent of them to North America. This

movement resulted from urban and rural discontent due to the

industrial revolution, rapid population growth, natural disasters,

and other factors. It was encouraged by travelers, intellectuals,

humanitarians, businessmen, and common folk and by profit-motivated

agents who attempted to direct the newcomers to specific areas.

This study examines and critically appraises contemporary sources

including "periodicals, diaries, letters, emigrant guide books, and

travel accounts."



Taylor, Philip A. M.

THE DISTANT MAGNET: European emigration to the U.S.A / [by] Philip

Taylor.--New York: Harper & Row, [1971].--xvi, 326 p.: ill.-- (A

Torchbook library ed.)

                                        JV6450 . T37 1971 



Includes bibliographical references.



Turner, Thomas J .

THE HYGIENE OF EMIGRANT SHIPS / by Thomas J. Turner; read before

the American Public Health Association, December 1880. -- Boston:

Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, 1881.-- 71 p.

                                        JV6518 . T9 



Bibliography: p. 71.



United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Sickness and

Mortality on Board Emigrant Ships.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

ON THE SICKNESS AND MORTALITY ON BOARD EMIGRANT SHIPS / [Hamilton

Fish, chairman].--Washington: B. Tucker, Senate printer, 1854. --

147 p.

                                        JV6518 . A4 1854 



Reprinted in New York by Arno Press in 1977 (JV6518 .U54 1977).



THE SHIPS



Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, 1896-

SQUARE-RIGGERS ON SCHEDULE: the New York sailing packets to

England, France,and the cotton ports / by Robert Greenhalgh Albion.

-- Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938.-- xii, 371 p.:

ill., front., facsims, plates, ports.

                                        HE767.N5 A7 1965



Bibliography: p. [347]-353.



Reprinted in Hamden Conn. by Archon Books in 1965.



Covers the period from 1818 to 1858. The appendix provides tabular

data on the vessels including specifications, builders, years of

service, speed of westbound passages, rates of freight, cargoes,

and biographical notes on packet captains.



Anuta, Michael J .

SHIPS OF OUR ANCESTORS / Michael J. Anuta.-- [Menominee, Mich:

Ships of our Ancestors, Inc., 1983].--xiii, 380 p.: chiefly ill.

                                        VM381 .A58 1983



Bibliography: p. 366-370.



Over 880 photographs and other illustrations of ships that

transported immigrant passengers to America .



Bonsor, N. R. P.

NORTH ATLANTIC SEAWAY: an illustrated history of the passenger

services linking the Old World with the New / by N. R. P. Bonsor;

with ill. by J. H. Isherwood. -- Enl. and rev. ed. -- Newton Abbot

[Eng. ] : David & Charles, 1975-

                                        HE822 .B7 1975 SSRR 



Includes bibliographical references.



Vol. 3-4 published by Brookside Publications, Jersey, Channel

Islands, 1979.



A chronological discussion of individual American, British, and

European steamship lines for the period 1819-1957 is followed by

brief comments on each of the vessels. Approximately two hundred

illustrations are included.



Cutler, Carl C., 1878-

QUEENS OF THE WESTERN OCEAN: the story of America's mail and

passenger sailing lines / with a foreword by Chester W. Nimitz.--

Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, [1961].--xxi, 672 p.: ill., maps

(on lining papers), plans, ports.

                                        HE745 .C8 SSRR 



Bibliographic references included in "Notes" (p. 360-367).; "Index

to Ships' Names": p. 579-613. "Western Ocean" refers to the

Atlantic Ocean.



Dunn, Laurence.

FAMOUS LINERS OF THE PAST, BELFAST BUILT / written and illustrated

by Laurence Dunn.--London: A. Coles, [1964].--238 p.: ill.

                                        HE565.G7 D8 



Descriptions arranged by steamship line. Many of the ships included

were built in the twentieth century.



Emmons, Frederick E.

AMERICAN PASSENGER SHIPS: the ocean lines and liners, 1873-1983 /

Frederick E. Emmons; illustrated by the author.--Newark: University

of Delaware Press, c1985. -- 184 p., [2] p. of plates.: ill. (some

col.)

                                        VM381 .E46 1985 



Bibliography: p. 175-177.



Presents technical data on 392 ocean-going American flag ships "of

over 2,500 gross registered tons, built with iron or steel hulls,

and driven by screw propulsion, " and historical background on the

steamship companies for which they sailed. These companies are

divided into six geographical areas that include the North

Atlantic; Pacific, Hawaii, and Around-the-World; South America and

Africa; Intercoastal and Central America; East Coast, Gulf, and

Caribbean; the West Coast and Alaska.



Gibbs, Charles Robert Vernon.

THE WESTERN OCEAN PASSENGER LINES AND LINERS, 1934-1969 / [by] C.

R. Vernon Gibbs. -- Glasgow: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1970.-- 185

p., plates.: ill.

                                        HE599 . G5



Lists and describes the screw-propelled vessels of the North

Atlantic passenger trade "between Europe and the Eastern

Mediterranean, and North American ports north ofthe Chesapeake"

between 1834 and 1969. A short history of each passenger line is

included; omitted are pre-1930 ships under ten thousand tons owned

by countries in northern Europe and the Mediterranean.



Haws, Duncan.

MERCHANT FLEETS IN PROFILE / Duncan Haws; additional research by

Stephen Rabson. -- Cambridge [Eng.] : P. Stephens, 1978-<1979 >.--

v. <1-2 >: ill.

                                        HE945.A2 H38 



Contents: v. 1. The ships of the P & O, Orient, and Blue Anchor

lines.--v. 2. The ships of the Cunard, American, Red Star, Inman,

Leyland, Dominion, Atlantic Transport, and White Star lines.



Kludas, Arnold.

DEUTSCHE OZEAN-PASSAGIERSCHIFFE, 1850 BIS 1895 = German passenger

liners, 1850 until 1895 / Arnold Kludas. -- Moers Steiger,c1983.--

144 p.: ill. -- (Bibliothek der Schiffstypen)

                                        VM381 .K57 1983 LH&G



Bibliography: p. 140.



In addition to approximately 120 illustrations of ships, the

following data are provided for each vessel: date, place, and by

whom built; gross tonnage; knots per hour; overall length;

registered length; classes of accommodations; type of engine, if

steam; number of passengers; number of crew; and a brief history

which is summarized in English.



Kludas, Arnold.

GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD/ Arnold Kludas; translated by

Charles Hodges. -- Cambridge: Stephens, 1975-1977. -- 5 v. ill.

                                        VM381 .K5813 LH&G 



Reprinted in Wellingborough, Northants by P. Stevens and

distributed in New York by Sterling Pub. Co., 1985-<1986 > with a

continuation volume 6 translated by Keith Lewis. Includes

bibliographies and indexes.



Chronologically arranged, the volumes cover the period from 1858 to

1977 and include "all passenger ships to date of over 10,000 GRT

[gross registered tonnage], with all essential technical and

historical data [and] the appearance of the ship recorded in

photographs .



LLOYD'S REGISTER OF SHIPPING. -- London: Wyman.

                                        HE565.A3 L7 



Annual.



"Founded 1760."



Descriptive details are arranged alphabetically by ship. Before

1834 only ships in ports of the United Kingdom were surveyed. The

survey was gradually extended to foreign ports so that the register

is now international. Its history and the development of its

classification scheme are described in the _Annals of l,loyd 's

Register_, centenary ed. ([London, Lloyd's Register, 1934] 251 p.

HE565.H3 L8).



MacGregor, David R. (David Roy)

MERCHANT SAILING SHIPS, 1850-1875: heyday of sail / David R.

MacGregor. --Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, c1984.--256 p.:

ill.

                                        VM144 .M314 1984



Bibliography: p. 251.



MORTON ALLAN DIRECTORY OF EUROPEAN PASSENGER STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS FOR

THE YEARS 1890 TO 1930 AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK AND/OR THE YEARS

1904 TO 1926 AT THE PORTS OF NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, AND

BALTIMORE.--New York: Immigration Information Bureau, Inc.,

[c1931].--268 p.

                                        HE945.A2 D5 1931 



Reprinted in Baltimore by Genealogical Pub. Co. in 1979.



This work contains the "arrivals of passenger steamships carefully

compiled by the calendar year and indexed alphabetically by

Steamship Line." Also included are port of arrival and port of

departure, as well as a list of shipping lines that discontinued

passenger service to United States ports by 1931.



Munro-Smith, R.

MERCHANT SHIPS AND SHIPPING / [by] R. MunroSmith.--London:

Hutchinson, 1968.--xiv, 249 p.: ill., plans. --(Hutchinson library

of ships and shipping)

                                        VM287 .M8



IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA



Benton, Barbara.

ELLIS ISLAND: a pictorial history / Barbara Benton.--1st ed.--New

York: Facts on File, c1985.--192 p.: ill.

                                        JV6483 .B47 1985 LH&G 



Bibliography: p. 190.



Bolino, August C. (August Constantino)

THE ELLIS ISLAND SOURCE BOOK / August C. Bolino.--Washington:

Kensington Historical Press, c1985. --xvii, 306 p.: ill.

                                        JV6483 .B64 1985 LH&G



Bibliography: p. 195-306.



Bromwell, William Jeremy, 1834-1875 .

HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, EXHIBITING THE NUMBER,

SEX, AGE, OCCUPATION, AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH, OF PASSENGERS ARRIVING

IN THE UNITED STATES BY SEA FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, FROM SEPTEMBER

30, 1819 TO DECEMBER 31, 1855: compiled entirely from official

data, with an introductory review of the progress and extent of

immigration to the United States prior to 1819, and an appendix,

containing the naturalization and passenger laws of the United

States.--New York: Redfield, 1856.--[11]-225 p.

                                        JV6463 . B8 



Reprinted in New York by Arno Press and by A. M. Kelley in 1969.



Statistical data are presented in yearly tables. No passenger names

are included.



Brownstone, David M.

ISLAND OF HOPE, ISLAND OF TEARS / David M. Brownstone, Irene M.

Franck, Douglass L. Brownstone.--1st ed.--New York: Rawson, Wade

Publishers, 1979. --xii, 307 p.: ill.

                                        JV6450 .B76 1979 



Bibliography: p. [295].



Currer-Briggs, Noel.

WORLDWIDE FAMILY HISTORY / Noel CurrerBriggs.--London Boston:

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. --ix, 230 p.: maps.

                                        CS9 .C87 1982 LH&G 



Bibliography: p. [220]-[223].



Includes a brief discussion of Anglo-Saxon, German, Dutch,

Scandinavian, French, Spanishspeaking, Italian, Polish, Croat and

Slovene, and Greek migration to America.



Davie, Maurice R. (Maurice Rea), 1893-

WORLD IMMIGRATION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE UNITED STATES / by

Maurice R. Davie. -- New York: Macmillan, 1936. --x, 588 p.: maps,

diagrs.

                                        JV6032 . D3 



"Bibliographical notes" at end of each chapter. Reprinted in New

York by Garland in 1983.



THE DUTCH IN AMERICA: immigration, settlement, and cultural change

/ edited by Robert P. Swierenga. --New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers

University Press, c1985. --xv, 303 p.

                                        E184.D9 D87 1985 



Includes bibliographies and index.



Franklin, Frank George.

THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF NATURALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES,

FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO 1861/ by Frank George Franklin.--

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906.--ix, 308 p.

                                        JK1814 .F84 LH&G 



Bibliography: p. 301-305.



Reprinted in New York by Arno in 1969 and by A. M. Kelley in 1971.



Geiser, Karl Frederick, 1869-

REDEMPTIONERS AND INDENTURED SERVANTS IN THE COLONY AND

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA / by Karl Frederick Geiser. -- New

Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, [1901].--128 p. 

                                        F160.R3 G3 



LC copy replaced by microfilm (no. 54909).



In general, indentured servants were adult white persons from

Britain and the continent who were bound out to labor from two to

seven years and included three classes: the redemptioners or free

willers who sold their services in exchange for passage to America;

those who were kidnapped or were forced out of the mother country

because of poverty or political or religious reasons; and convicts.

During the late 1600s until 1730 the majority were English; between

1730 and the early 1800s they were principally German and Scotch-

Irish.



The history of redemptioners and indentured servants in the

eighteenth and nineteenth century in Philadelphia includes a

discussion of fraudulent means used by unscrupulous agents for

recruiting in Europe, and the establishment of benevolent societies

to aid the impoverished newcomers.



Handlin, Oscar, 1915-

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION. -- New York: Crown Publishers,

[1972].--344 p.: ill.

                                        JV6450 .H34 1972



Bibliography: p. 329-333.



Herrick, Cheesman Abiah, 1866-1956

WHITE SERVITUDE IN PENNSYLVANIA: indentured and redemption labor in

colony and commonwealth--Philadelphia: J. J. McVey, 1926. --ix, 330

p.: facsims.

                                        F160.R3 H4



Bibliography: p. 309-326.



Based on the author's thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1899.



Reprinted in New York by Negro Universities Press in 1969 and in

Freeport N.Y. by Books for Libraries Press in 1970.



Included are discussions concerning the influence of labor on

colonial development, the demand for indentured and redemption

servants in Pennsylvania, the sale and distribution of servants,

and the enlistment of servants for colonial wars. The work is

illustrated with facsimile copies of original documents.



Jones, Maldwyn A.

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION. -- [Chicago] University of Chicago Press, [

1960].--359 p. : ill. -- (The Chicago history of American

civilization)

                                        JV6450 .J6

Bibliography: p. 325-341.



Lind, Marilyn.

IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, AND SETTLEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: a

genealogical guidebook / by Marilyn Lind.--Cloquet, Minn.: Linden

Tree c1985.--144 p.: ill.

                                        CS49 .L54 1985



Bibliography: p. 141.



Discusses economic, social, and religious conditions that motivated

immigration to the New World and relates these to conditions that

prevailed in each of the colonies and states at the time of

settlement.



Martell, J. S.

IMMIGRATION TO AND EMIGRATION FROM NOVA SCOTIA 1815-1838 / prepared

byJ. S. Martell under the direction of D. C. Harvey, archivist.--

Halifax, N.S.: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1942.--112 p.:

tables.--(Nova Scotia. Public Archives. Publications; no. 6)

                                        JV7290.N5 M3 



A statistical study undertaken to compare immigration data from the

Canadian archives with data from newspapers of the period. Names of

vessels, ports of embarkation, date, total number of passengers and

their nationality are provided for each port of entry. The

introduction includes an analysis of the statistics gathered, a

discussion of attitudes in Nova Scotia toward immigration, and the

official policy toward new arrivals.



Neagles, James C.

LOCATING YOUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR: a guide to naturalization records

/ byJames C. Neagles and Lila Lee Neagles. -- Logan, Utah: Everton,

1975.--x, 153 p.

                                        CS68. N42



Newman, John J. 

AMERICAN NATURALIZATION PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES, 1790-1985 

/ by John J. Newman. --Indianapolis : Family History Section,

Indiana Historical Society, 1985. -- 43p.: ill.

                                        KF4710.N49 1985



Bibliography: p. 28-30.



Roberts, Peter, 1859-1932

THE NEW IMMIGRATION: a study of the industrial and social life of

southeastern Europeans in America / by Peter Roberts. -- New York:

Macmillan, 1912.--xxi, 386 p.: map, tables, front., plates.

                                        JV6455 .R63 1912a



Includes bibliographical references.



Reprinted in New York by Arno Press in 1970 and by l S. Ozer in

1971.



Smith, Darrell Hevenor.

THE BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION: its history, activities, and

organization / by Darrell Hevenor Smith.--Baltimore: TheJohns

Hopkins Press, 1926.--xii, 108 p.--(Institute for government

research of the Brookings institution; Service monograph of the

United States government; no. 43)

                                        JK1811 .S6 LH&G 



Bibliography: p. 99-103.



Reprinted in New York by AMS Press in 1974. Appendix 4 is a

compilation of laws pertaining to naturalization, 1789-1923.



United States. Bureau of Naturalization.

DIRECTORY OF COURTS HAVING JURISDICTION IN NATURALIZATION

PROCEEDINGS: Fifth edition, June 1 , 1932. -- Washington: U.S.

Govt. Print Off., 1932. - iii, 128 p.

                                        JK1801.1932 .C3 LH&G



Wittke, Carl Frederick, 1892-

WE WHO BUILT AMERICA: the saga of the irnmigrant / by Carl Wittke.

-- [Rev. ed.]-- [Cleveland]: Press of Case Western Reserve

University, [c1967].--xviii, 550 p.

                                        JV6455 .W55 1967 



Includes bibliographical references.



Discusses immigration to America from the colonial period to the

1960s.



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