Immigration & Naturalization Resources Online

·   Details on more than 22 million immigrants, passengers and crew members who came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. Also, US citizens returning home from travel abroad.

·   Once you find your ancestors on a passenger list, you can view an image of the actual manifest and order a framed copy. You can also purchase a picture of the ship and create an electronic family history scrapbook.

·   One-Step Web Pages by Stephen P. Morse <www.stevemorse.org> has special search forms to help you find a Jewish passenger and to search by town of origin or ethnicity.

Ancestry.com’s U.S. Immigration Collection <www.ancestry.com>

· Includes databases of Eastern European, German and Irish immigrants and Minnesota and New York naturalization records.

· $24.95 for three months or $79.95 for one year.

Genealogy.com’s International and Passenger Records <www.genealogy.com>

· Databases include lists of passengers arriving in Boston , New Orleans and New York (1820-1850), Philadelphia (1800-1850) and Baltimore (1820-1872), as well as immigrants from Germany (1850-1888), Ireland (1803-1886), Italy (1880-1893), Russia (1850-1896) and Scotland (1600s-1800s).

· $14.99 a month or $79.99 a year.

HeritageQuest Online <www.heritagequestonline.com>

· Patrons of the Lake Agassiz Regional Library <www.larl.org> can access these books, census records and periodical indexes for free at the library or from home. Click on Online Resources.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild <www.immigrantships.net>

· Over half a million names from nearly 5,000 worldwide passenger lists transcribed by over 500 volunteers.

Sampubco Gateway to the Declarations of Intentions Indexes, Naturalization Petitions Indexes, Odd Citizenship Indexes <www.sampubco.com/nats>

· Indexes for Iowa , New York , Oregon , Pennsylvania & Wisconsin . 1906-1954. Free.

Finland

Finnish Institute of Migration Emigrant Register <www.migrationinstitute.fi>

· Over 480,000 entries from passport and passenger records, 1850-1960. Free.

Germans from Russia

Catholic Germans from Russia & Romania <www.cgrr.com/immigration.htm>

· 1874-1914. Free.

Janet’s Germans from Russia Research <www.angelfire.com/ks/gerrus>

· Lists of passengers arriving in New York , Baltimore & Galveston . Kansas & Oklahoma naturalizations. 1891-1951. Free.

Odessa Digital Library: Ship and Immigration Records <www.odessa3.org>

· Mennonite German migrants to Russia & then to the US & Canada . Naturalization records & passenger lists. 1763-1922. Free.

Germany

German-Bohemian Immigrant Surname Database <www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/database/database.html>

· 1837-1921. Free.

Hamburg : Link to your roots <ltyr.hamburg.de>

·   Passengers leaving Hamburg , Germany , a key port of departure for European immigrants to North America .

·   Lists for 1890 to 1908 are complete. Eventually this site will list more than five million names from 1850 to 1934.

·   Searches are free, but payment is required for complete information ($20 for 1 to 3 immigrants).

The Palatine Project: Reconstructed Passenger Lists, 1683-1819 <http://progenealogists.com/palproject/>

· This project uses sources from both colonial America and German-speaking countries to reconstruct passenger lists in the first large wave of German immigration.

Ireland

Famine Irish Data Files <www.archives.gov/aad>

·   604,596 persons who arrived in the United States , 1846-1851, and the ships on which they arrived.

·   About 70% list their native country as Ireland . Others came from Canada , Brazil , Saint Croix , Russia , Morocco , the United States and countries throughout Europe .

·   Click on the Search button and on People.

Minnesota

Iron Range Research Center in Chisholm <www.ironrangeresearchcenter.org>

· Includes an index to all Minnesota naturalizations and 1918 Alien Registrations records. Free.

Minnesota Naturalization Records Index <www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/immigration/mnri/main.htm>

· An index to 500,000 records in 57 of Minnesota ’s 87 counties. 1854-1957. Requires a subscription to Ancestry.com’s U.S. Immigration Collection.

North Dakota

North Dakota Naturalization Records Index <www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/databases/naturalrec.php>

· Over 212,000 names. Free.

Norway

Digitalarkivet <http://digitalarkivet.uib.no>

· Emigration & passenger lists & passport registers, 1842-1930. Select English>Database selector>Emigrants (from the Source category pull-down menu). Free.

· Norwegians in the US censuses, 1850-1880. Select English, Categories, Censuses. Free.

Emigration site for Finnmark County , Norway <home.no.net/~tballo>

· 1867-1925. Free.

Emigration Web Norway <http://utvandring.numedal.net>

· 1842-1900? Free.

Index to the Trondheim Emigrant Protocol 1867-1925 <homepages.rootsweb.com/~schwartz/SorTrondelag/trondprot1.htm>

· Free.

Kulturnett Sogn og Fjordane: Databases <www.sffarkiv.no/sffbasar/default.asp?p=form&db=dbmigration>

· 1874-1924. Free.

Norway Heritage Emigrant search 1825 - 1873 <www.norwayheritage.com/pasquest.asp>

· Emigrant search, 1825–1873, of over 34,000 passengers on over 270 journeys. Free.

Norwegian Immigrant Registry of Central Iowa <genloc.com/NorStory/NorCIA>

· Free.

Tip: To find the place of origin of an immigrant ancestor with an uncommon last name, try to determine where the name predominates. You might search the International Genealogical Index (IGI) <www.familysearch.org> and phone directories for the last name, if it’s rare. Infobel <infobel.com> have links to international phone directories.

GUIDES AND RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHING IMMIGRATION RECORDS

Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet <www.cyndislist.com>

Check especially the categories for Ellis Island, Immigration & Naturalization, Ports of Departure, Ports of Entry and Ships & Passenger Lists.

A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant & Ethnic Ancestors, by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 2000.

Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists Research Guide <home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.html#top>

This guide also covers passports.

Magellan - The Ships Encyclopedia <www.cimorelli.com/magellan>

This site features biographies and pictures of many ships.

Online Searchable Naturalization Indexes <home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalization.html>

Links to online indexes for several states.

Tracing Immigrant Origins Research Outline <www.familysearch.org>

Click on the Search tab, Research Helps, Sorted by Title and on T. Then click on the title to view the outline onscreen or on the item number to order a printed copy for $3.25.