Ships United States "By Way of Canada" Prologue Article - St. Albans Lists
US. Citizenship and Immigration Services Genealogy (formerly INS) History, Genealogy and Education
US immigration, naturalization history — Marian Smith
Manifest Markings A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations
Soundex Converter Steve Morse
Immigration Records NARA
Passenger list microfilm catalog NARA
New Microfilm Publications NARA
Mexican Border Crossing Records NARA
Finding Passenger Lists 1820 to the 1940s Joe Beine - including NARA-LDS film numbers
Boston and Related Ports since 1820 (on site)
Canada Canadian Records (on-site)
Library & Archives of Canada LAC Microfilm Reel Numbers
Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience.
Forging Our Legacy - Citizenship & Immigration Canada 1900-1977
Emigration Information of the Nineteenth Century Marj Kohli - (very comprehensive site)
Young Immigrants to Canada Marj Kohli - Home Children
Ward Chipman, Muster Master's Office (1777-1785) LAC - Loyalists to Nova Scotia & New Brunswick
Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers (LI-RA-MA) Collection LAC - 1898-1922 passport / indentity papers
Canadian War Brides Melynda Jarratt
British Immigrants in Montreal Deborah Robertson
Australia Emigration & Immigration Guide - Jenny Fawcett
New Zealand New Zealand Bound Olwyn Whitehouse
Passenger Lists & General information Denise & Peter's "Ourstuff"
New Zealand Yesteryears Corey Woodward
United Kingdom British Passenger Lists Debbie Beavis (on site)
United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services BCIS (ex INS) Naturalization Records
Women and Naturalization ca. 1802-1940 Prologue Article
US Naturalization Records NARA
Naturalization Records in the USA & Canada Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Canada Canadian Citizenship at Birth or by Derivation (on site)
Canadian Citizenship 1947 newspaper article
Upper Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records (1828-1850)
Citizenship Registration Records for the Montreal Circuit Court (1851-1945)
Searchable Canadian Naturalization Index 1915-1932 Canadian Genealogy Centre
Naturalization Records in Canada & the USA Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Canada Immigrants to Canada pre-1865 LAC formerly known as, Miscellaneous Immigration Index
Immigrants at Grosse-Île (1832-1937) LAC
Passenger Lists, 1865-1922 LAC scanned passenger list images
1925-1935 Passenger Index - searchable database LAC
Home Children searchable database 1869-1930 LAC
Immigrants from China arriving in Canada between 1885 and 1949 LAC
ArchiviaNet LAC Many searchable databases
Canadian Genealogy Centre (The National Library & Archives, Canada &c.)
Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book (1832)
Assisted Emigration, Toronto Emigrant Office 1865-1883 Ontario Archives, Hawke Papers
inGeneas Databases Passenger & Immigration records (commercial and free databases)
In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Project, McGill University
The Olive Tree Canadian Index (very comprehensive site)
New Brunswick Gen Links: Ships List Page Todd Gilbert
Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Gail Facini - Passenger Lists & more
The Island Register Shipping Stories, Info, and Folklore Dave Hunter - Prince Edward Island
Family Roots of Pictou and Antigonish Counties NS Morgan Robertson
Passenger Lists Canada Alan Tupman
United States Ellis Island Database 1892-1924
Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step Steve Morse (a great entry page into Ellis Island Database)
All Stephen P. Morses' webpages .....many, including 'Missing Manifests'
Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step Steve Morse blue page (Jewish Passengers)
Castle Garden America's First Immigration Center
New Orleans Passenger Lists: Filling in the Gaps 1845 & 1847 Joe Beine
Maine Passenger Lists Index online
Boston Immigration Index Updated (1848-1891) online
Family Search The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints LDS
Family History Library Catalog LDS
Great Lakes Passengers Lists (St. Albans Lists) Patricia Hamp
from Ancestry.com
Free Trial - Annual US Deluxe Membership
from Ancestry.com
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild ISTG Thousands of transcribed Passenger Lists
New York Emigrant Savings Bank Project Monica Bennett
Australia Unassisted Shipping Index Victoria 1852-1923
Assisted British Immigration to Victoria 1839-1871
Outward Passengers to Interstate, U.K. and Foreign Ports, 1852-1896
Immigrants to South Australia, (UK, assisted passage) 1847-1886: (onsite)
German Emigrants to South Australia, 1837-1866: (onsite)
Queensland State Archives Immigration Databases
Queensland State Archives Assisted immigration 1848-1912 (now providing direct access to digital copies)
National Archives of Australia Record Search
New South Wales - online indexes, including Shipping and Immigration
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters Mary-Anne Warner (search crew, passengers etc.)
Passenger Ships Arriving at Australasian Ports Rob Nelson
New Zealand New Zealand Yesteryears Hundreds of passenger lists 1800-1900 - Corey Woodward
South Africa Ships arriving or departing the port of Cape Town, South Africa - Sharon Warr
Norway 100 Years of Emigrant Ships from Norway Full passenger search of transcribed lists
Norwegian Digitalarkivet Emigration (protocol) - (go to "Database Selector")
Denmark The Danish Emigration Archives
Finland Finnish Institute of Migration
Emigration from Finland
France Compagnie Générale Transatlantique Passenger Lists 1864-1936
Bermuda Ships and Passenger Lists
Germany Hamburg Passenger Search (commercial)
The Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank DAD Bremen and Bremerhaven 1820-1939 (commercial)
Hamburg Passenger List Index for 1872 passengers to various destinations, direct & indirect - Gary T. Horlacher
Britain GenesConnected – the UK’s number one family tree and genealogy site (part free part commercial)
The UK genealogy resource for those around the globe search for ancestors and living relatives from a growing
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from Ancestry.co.uk
Free Births, Marriages & Deaths database FreeBMD
Birth, Marriage and Death at Sea (onsite) about the Registration of BMD at sea & how to locate the records.
Various Countries Represented
The Odessa Digital Library Ships and Immigration Records
The Olive Tree Genealogy Main Page Lorine McGinnis Schulze - Passenger Lists and much more
Directory of Online Ships Passenger Lists Bob Prost
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild ISTG Thousands of transcribed Passenger Lists
The Compass ISTG Research Guides and many links
Cyndi's List More than 246,500 Passenger & Genealogy links
from Ancestry.com
Free Trial - Annual World Deluxe Membership
Pictures of Ships, Immigrants, Ports, Immigration Stations and more (on-site)
Flotilla Australia (off site) John E Hoskin - Australian Shipping Lines and Ship Pictures
Ship to Shore, Shipping & Maritime Postcards - Graham Whyte - (commercial)
100 Years of Emigrant Ships from Norway Full ship, shipping line & agent search
Emigration from Finland The F.Å.A. Line's Emigrant Ships
Kinship Prints Pamela Lucas - ship pictures, post cards, prints (commercial)
Passenger Ship History Service Don Hazeldine (commercial)
Jewish Welfare Board WWI Troopship Postcards Bob Swanson
Steamship Historical Society of America Collection
San Francisco Public Library Historical Photograph Collection (Ships)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London (commercial)
The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia (commercial)
The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (commercial)
Vickers Photographic Archive ships built at Vickers Shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness (commercial)
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels Michael Palmer - many early vessels
World Ship Society (commercial - pictures available to WSS Members ONLY)
Picture Australia (commercial)
Timeframes - National Library of New Zealand (commercial)
Great Ships Post Card & Ephemera Collection of Jeff Newman
Mystic Seaport Steamship Images 1862-1927 (commercial)
Images Canada
Maritime Timetable Images Björn Larsson - Images of Timetables for Ships and Shipping Lines
P & O Ship Pictures Mel Barton-Ancliffe
Port Pictures - modern day - Rainer Kluge
Shipping Postcards Harold Jordan (commercial)
White Star Line and Shaw Savill Line ship pictures
House Flags of Shipping Companies
Ocean Liner Postcards Ian Boyle / Simplon Postcards
Old Ship Pictures Tony Richardson / over 90,000 ship pictures
Canada The National Library & Archives of Canada LAC Immigration Research
Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management NSARM
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Provincial Archives of Prince Edward Island Genealogical Research
Provincial Archives of Ontario
Archives nationales du Québec (French only)
Provincial Archives of British Columbia
Provincial Archives of Newfoundland & Labrador
United States National Archives & Records Administration NARA Genealogy Research
Regional Facilities by State NARA
Louisiana State Archives
United Kingdom The National Archives Public Record Office PRO
Migration / Ships' Passenger Lists PRO
Ireland The National Archives of Ireland Genealogical Research
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland PRONI
Scotland The National Archives of Scotland
Australia National Archives of Australia Family History
National Archives of Australia Record Search
New South Wales State Records
Public Record Office of Victoria PROVIC Online Resources
Genealogical Society of Victoria Family History Research
Queensland State Archives Family History Research
State Records of South Australia
Archives Office of Tasmania
Australia General Archives Links
New Zealand Archives New Zealand (formerly the National Archives of NZ)
Norway Norwegian Digitalarkivet Emigration (protocol), Census and more (go to "Database Selector")
Denmark The Danish Emigration Archives
Sweden Sweden Archives Links various
Finland The Genealogical Society of Finland
Finnish Institute of Migration
Netherlands State Archives
France Archives de France (French only)
Mariners Website Ted Finch & Debbie Beavis - Merchant Shipping, Naval Ships, Crews &c
Register of Ships 1764-2001 Gilbert Provost - from the Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping
100 Years of Emigrant Ships from Norway Many articles and voyage reports
The Fleets Companies & their Vessels (on-site)
Immigrant Ship Descriptions Lou Alfano
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels Michael Palmer - many early vessels
Miramar Ship Index Rodger B. Haworth
P&O Heritage Collection
Migration from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1914 Nick Evans
The Great Central Railway Chris Tolley - Migration from Europe to North America
Maritime History and Naval Heritage Web Site Michael Phillips & Jane Buchmann Phillips
Mystic Seaport Libraries Ship & Yacht Registers
Morton Allan Directory of US Ship Arrivals 1890-1930 Tony Cimorelli
Magellan - Ship Explorer Tony Cimorelli
Passenger Ship Descriptions (on-site)
The Maritime History Virtual Archives Lars Bruzelius (very comprehensive site with a lot of links)
Shipping Company House Flags
Maritime History on the Internet Peter McCracken
Tacoma, Washington Public Library Ships and Shipping Database
North American & Worldwide Maritime Museum Websites compiled by Robert Smith
Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Manitoba
Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database
Canadian Pacific Archives (commercial)
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Nova Scotia)
The Lower St. Lawrence River Maritime History Gilbert Bossé - CD available - best viewed with Internet Explorer
Downward Bound Great Lakes Shipping
Pier 21 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Maritime History Archive Memorial University of Newfoundland MUNS
Northern Shipwrecks Database David Barron (commercial CD)
Port Australia (off site) John E Hoskin - Australian Shipping Lines
Australian National Shipwreck database
McCorkell Line Ships 1788-1897
Sea Breezes Magazine The Worldwide Magazine of Ships and the Sea
TheShipsList website was featured in the April 2002 issue of Sea Breezes
National Maritime Museum National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
TheShipsList website is "featured on PORT, the Maritime Information Gateway."
Translation
World Star Dictionaries and Search Engines
Free Translation English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Norwegian, Chinese
World Lingo online translator
World Wide Words Michael Quinion
Babel Fish Translation
InterTran Translation Site (can be slow loading)
Maps & Placenames &c.
In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Project, McGill University
World Map & Placename Index
Global Gazetteer Directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns
Canadian Geographical Names
Ontario, Canada Map & Placename Index
Ontario Locator
Ontario GenWeb - Maps
Railway Map State of Michigan 1848 (including Steamboat routes on the Great Lakes)
Railway Map State of New York 1894
Map Site United Kingdom
Greenwood's Map of London 1827 Mark Annand
John Snow's Map of Victorian London in 1859 created by Ralph Frerichs
Lookup Sites
Australasia Genealogical Look Up Exchange Leith Hutton (Australia and New Zealand)
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
Genealogical CD Look-ups Lori Case
Old City Directory Look-ups
Cindi's List Look-up Resource Page
Census
Census Online: Your Guide to Online Census Records Mark Reed
Census Links
Index to the 1901 Census of Canada fully searchable
Index to the 1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces fully searchable
1906 Census of Canada (Prairies) Transcriptions
Misc.
Germans to America Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934
Germans To America Edited by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby
Odessa German-Russian Genealogical Library
Family History in India
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