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**Print Sources:**
929.19437 B116c	Baca, Leo. Czech Immigration Passenger Lists. Halletsville, Tex.: Old Homestead Pub. Co., c1983. Primarily discusses Czech and Moravian immigrants into the ports of New Orleans and Galveston Texas.
929.11 S557 v.1	Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: National and New England (1600-1825). Newhall, California, 1977.
929.11 S557 v.2	Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: New York and New Jersey (1600-1825). Newhall, California, 1978.
929.11 S557 v.3	Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: The South (1538-1825). Newhall, California, 1979.
929.11 S557 v.4	Boyer, Carl., Ship Passenger Lists: Pennsylvania and Delaware (1641-1825). Newhall, California, 1980.
974.8 B954m	Burgert, Annette K. Master Index to the Emigrants Documented in the Published Works of Annette K. Burgert, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P. Myerstown, PA.: AKB Publications, 2000. Includes surname and given name of emigrant year of emigration to the United States, and keyword to one of Burgert's other sources.
974.8 B954p	Burgert, Annette Kunselman. Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers. Myerstown, PA: AKB Publications, 2000. Seeks to identify the European village of origin of Colonial Pennsylvania German Immigrants through 18^th century German resources and Pennsylvania church records.
929.11 C688b	Coldham, Peter Wilson. Bonded Passengers to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983.
929.11 C688br	Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988
929.11 C688c	Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988.
929.122 D635di	Dobson, David. Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984.
929.121 F198f	The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983. The records list Irish passengers by name, ship and date of arrival.
929.11 P287f	Filby, P. William, Passenger and Immigration List Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of 300,000 Passengers Who Came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. Detroit, Mich.: This volume is a preliminary edition containing about 75,000 names. This is a compilation of published passenger lists, not passenger lists on microfilm.
929.11 P287fi	Filby, P. William, Passenger and Immigration List Index: A Guide to Published Arrival Records of 500,000 Passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth centuries. (3 volumes, plus annual supplements), Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., c1981. This is a compilation of published passenger lists, not passenger lists on microfilm. You will need to check each supplement individually. The printed numbered bibliography is at the beginning of each volume.
929.13 G373t	Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources, 1988. Derived from original ship manifest schedules in chronological order by date of arrival. The original set is from January 2, 1850-June 17, 1897. There is an index of names in every volume, look in the volume in the range of years the immigrant would have arrived. Information on ship and village may be given.
929.13 G373ta	Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports in the 1840's. Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources, c2002. Derived from original ship manifest schedules in chronological order by date of arrival. The records in this set begin in the 1840s. There is an index of names in every volume, look in the volume in the range of years the immigrant would have arrived. Information on ship and village may be given.
929.102 M547ha	Index to Mennonite Immigrants on United States Passenger Lists, 1872-1904. North Newton, Kan.: Mennonite Library and Archives, 1986. Includes names, age and occupation of Mennonite arrivals. Also contains chronological list of ships.
929.15 I88	Italians to America: Lists Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports 1880-1899. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1992. There is an index of names in every volume, look n the volume in the range of years the immigrant would have arrived. Information on ship and village may be given.
974.7 J774e	Jones, Henry Z., Even More Palatine Families: 18^th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian origins. Rockport, ME.: Picton Press, c2002.
974.7 J774m	Jones, Henry Z. More Palatine Families: Some Immigrants to the Middle Colonies 1717-1776 and their European Origins Plus New Discoveries on German Families who Arrived in Colonial new York in 1710. Universal City, CA.: H.Z. Jones, 1991.
16.929 L251p	Lancour, Harold. Lists of Ships Coming to North America, 1607-1825. Extracted from New York Public Library Bulletin, May 1937
16.929 L251p 1988	Lancour, Harold. Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography 1538-1900: Being a Guide to Published Lists of Arrivals in the United States and Canada. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., c1988
929.1385 M636r	Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1995. Derived from original ship manifest schedules in chronological order by date of arrival. Covers the period from January 1875 � June 1891. In the same format as Germans to America.
929.11 M889 1979	Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals for the Years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the years 1904 to 1926 at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979.
929.182 O52sw 1979b	Olsson, Nils William. Swedish Passenger Arrivals in U.S. Ports 1820-1850 (except New York): With Additions and Corrections to Swedish Passenger Arrivals in New York 1820-1850. Saint Paul, Minn.: North Central Pub. Co., 1979.
929.11 R225s	Rasmussen, Louis J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists. Colma, Calif.: San Francisco Historic Record & Genealogy: Bulletin, 1965.
974.8 S897p 1992	Strassburger, Ralph Beaver. Pennsylvania German pioneers: A publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Springfield, VA: Genealogical Books in Print, 1992.
929.11 T314a 1993	Tepper, Michael. American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail or Steam. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993. Discusses the content of colonial, early federal, and customs passenger lists.
974.8 T314e	Tepper, Michael, Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the Pennsylvania magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1975.
929.11 T314p	Tepper, Michael. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834: From Customs Passenger Lists. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982.
929.11 P287p	Tepper, Michael. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819: The Philadelphia (baggage list). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. Precedes regular passenger lists. Cargo inventories are where passengers are listed.
929.11 U58L	U.S. Department of State. Passenger Arrivals, 1819-1920: A Transcript of the List of Passengers Who Arrived in the United States from the 1, October, 1819, to the 30, September, 1820, with an added index. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967.
Ships:
929.11 A59s	Anita, Michael J. Ships of our Ancestors. Menominee, Mich.: Ships of our Ancestors Inc., 1983. Descriptive information about ships.
929.11 C698t 1993	Colletta, John Philip. They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, c1993. Discusses all types of immigration emigration sources, plus alternative resources.

CD ROMs:

CD #170 Family Tree Maker	Immigrants to the New World, 1600�s -1800�s
CD #256 Family Tree Maker	Passenger and Immigration Lists: Boston, 1821-1850
CD #257 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871
CD #259 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Baltimore, 1820-1850
CD #260 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Baltimore, Vol. 2, 1851-1872
CD #264 Family Tree Maker	Irish to America, Passenger and Immigration Lists, Vol. 2, 1846-1886
CD #273 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: NY, 1820-1850
CD #353 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Italians to America, 1880-1893
CD #354 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration List Index 1538-1940
CD #355 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Germans to America, 1850-1874
CD #356 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Germans to America, 1875-1888
CD #357 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846-1865
CD #358 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: New Orleans, 1820-1850
CD #359 Family Tree Maker	Passenger & Immigration Lists: Philadelphia, 1800-1850
CD #360 Family Tree Maker	Russians to America, 1850-1896, Passenger and Immigration Lists
CD #365 Family Tree Maker	Irish & British Immigrants to America 1870-1872, Vol. 3
CD #366 Family Tree Maker	Irish & British Immigrants to America, 1873-1879, Vol. 3
CD #501 Family Tree Maker	Immigrant Records: Immigrants to Pennsylvania, 1600s-1800s

Internet Links:

	Ancestry Library Online subscription available for use within the Indiana State Library. The following is a sampling of various ports, and timeframe of records, that are available. This is not a comprehensive list of all available titles. Atlantic Ports, Gulf Coast, & Great Lakes Passenger Lists 1820-1871 Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1892-1948 Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943 New Orleans 1820-1850, Passenger & Immigration Lists Philadelphia 1800-1850, Passenger & Immigration Lists New York Passenger Lists 1851-1891 New York 1820-1850, Passenger & Immigration Lists
	CastleGarden.org Americas first immigration center, 12 million immigrants passed through Castle Garden from 1820-1892, when Ellis Island opened.
	Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet This site includes a broad range of subject categories such as: Famous & Historical Ships, General Resource Sites, Libraries, Archives & Museums, Mailing Lists, Newsgroups & Chat, Professional Researchers, Ships, Passenger & Crew Lists, Shipwrecks, and Societies & Groups.
	Ellis Island Searchable database of passengers and crew members who entered through Ellis Island, and the Port of New York 1892-1954.
	Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild A vast array of ship passenger lists form various time periods, and destinations.
	Library of Congress: Immigrant Arrivals A Guide to Published Sources An online guide to help individuals effectively understand and use published sources relating to immigrants.
	The Ships List Home Page Immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, and passenger lists.
	Steamship Historical Society of America Photograph Collection An online collection of photographs of passenger liners and other vessels dating from the mid-1800s.
	The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration Searchable data files relating to the immigration of Russians (1834-1897), Irish (1846-1851), Germans (1850-1897), and Italians (1855-1900) to the U.S.
	What Passenger Lists Are Online? Online Passenger Lists. Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records & Indexes

Microfilm:

Microfilm Second Floor	Index to Passenger Lists...New York, 1820-1846, 1897-1902, Index (Soundex)...NY, 1902-1943
Microfilm Second Floor	Index (Soundex) to City Passenger Lists of Baltimore, 1833-1866
Microfilm Second Floor	Index (Soundex) to Federal Passenger Lists of Baltimore, 1820-1897
Microfilm Second Floor	Index to Passengers Arriving at Philadelphia, 1800-1906
Microfilm Second Floor	Index to Passenger Lists Boston, 1848-1891, 1902-1906
Microfilm Second Floor	Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1847-1897
Microfilm Second Floor	Quarterly Abstracts of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, 1820-1875
Microfilm Second Floor	Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic & Gulf Coast Ports (excluding NY) 1820-1874

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