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Immigration and Naturalization


   Guides on How To's
   Where to Find Passenger Lists in USA
   Where to Find Passenger Lists Outside the USA
   Document Images
   Immigration History

  Guides on How To's

  1. Arnie Lang's Research Guide to Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists
  2. Finding Passenger Lists on Internet
  3. Family History Source Guide
  4. Naturalization Records in the USA & Canada
  5. Polish Genealogy Society of America
  6. Cimorelli"s Emigration and Immigration FAQ's
  7. Shirley Hornbeck's This and That Genealogy Tips on Immigrations and Passports
  8. PILS - Philadelphia Information Locator Service
  9. INS - Immigration and Naturalization
  10. Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research Houston, Texas
  11. Public Record Office: London, England
  12. US Family History Source Guide: Tracing Immigrant Origins
  13. FIES/FEE - Family History Research
  14. Locating Ship Passenger Lists
  15. Using Federal Documents In Genealogical Research

 Where to Find Passenger Lists in USA

**New** Added March 6, 2008** Links to the completely redesigned NARA
(National Archives and Records Administration) website**

The NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) website at www.archives.gov/ has been totally redesigned!
If you have any link problems please use the form at the bottom of the page to notify us. (Give us the link which failed and the page it is on to correct, Thank you)

  1. NARA - archives.gov/genealogy/immigration NARA - Immigration Records Start Page

  2. This is the page to start your search for Immigration Records!

  3. NARA - Access to Archival Databases
    Provides access to NARA archives databases. Browse for passenger lists or by year range!

  4. NARA - archives.gov/research/ NARA - Research link


  5. NARA - Useful Microfilm Numbers
  6. New York State Archives: Naturalization & Related Records
  7. BIFHS - British Isles Family Historical Society, Los Angeles, California


  8. **New** Added March 13, 2008 The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives This is an Phenomenal Site!


  9. Archives of Passenger Lists, Extensive Steamship materials of Cunard, White Star, American and other shipping companies.
    Specializing in supplying high-resolution images to production companies, authors, and genealogist like you - of historical documents including passenger lists, brochures, photographs, and other materials from the 1800s through 1954.
    Originally launched in 2000, the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives offers limited online access to more than 2,000 documents, including passenger lists, steamship brochures, immigration related documents and much more.

 Where to Find Passenger Lists Outside the USA

  1. National Library of Australia
  2. National Archives of Canada
  3. Pro - Public Record Office: London, England
  4. PRONI - Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
  5. The Oldenburg University Research Center, Hannover, Germany
  6. The Norwegian Emigration & Genealogy Center, Stavanger, Norway          

 Document Images have a link to pages with the following:

  1. Research Center German Emigrants
  2. University of Rochester
    1. Department of History
    2. MANIFEST Declaration of Intent
  3. Altenhof Germany Home Page
    1. Manifest Petition for United States citizenship
    2. German Identity Papers
  4. Golda Meir Library of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    1. Petition for Naturalization
    2. Naturalization Certificate
  5. Ron Prost's Web Page
    1. Petition for Naturalization
    2. Declaration of Intent
    3. Oath of Allegiance
    4. Certificate of Arrival
  6. INS - Immigration and Naturalization Service
    1. Border Crossing Card - Border Permit Card
    2. Soundex Card - Canadian Border Record
    3. Alien Registration Form
    4. Declaration of Intent
  7. Schleswig Holstein
    1. German Application of Emigration
  8. Helen's Page of New Zealand History
    1. Application for an Assisted Passage
    2. Passengers' Contract ticket

 Immigration History

  1. INS - Immigration and Naturalization Service
  2. ISTG - Immigrant Ships Transcriber's Guild
    1. Immigration Chart


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Research for the original information found in the ISTG COMPASS was conducted by Harriet Rosch and the late Donna Jackson. The ISTG Compass began to guide researchers in September 1999, and is an invaluable research site for genealogists.


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