How Do You Find A Ships Immigrant Passenger Lists?
Immigrant passenger lists, also known as ship passenger arrival records or passengers lists, are full of information on your ancestors that came to the United States seeking a better life for their families. These documents are an important source of information for genealogists tracing their immigrant ancestors arrival in America. The immigrant arrival records have the country of origin, the port the person embarked from, their occupation, age and date of arrival in the United States. The internet makes finding immigrant passenger lists easier, and you can find many passengers lists indexed online as well as in books and on microfilm. Check ship cargo manifests for immigrant passengers that came to America before 1820. These records can be found in books that have been published and have indexed the immigrant passengers names and may be found at your local public library. Look on The National Archives site for immigrant passenger lists pre-1820. They have immigrant arrival at New Orle
