Ship indices are constantly being published. Some of these are available in the Rochester Public Library. A full set of ship records is kept at the NATIONAL ARCHIVES in WASHINGTON, DC. * The ship records from 1565 to 1819 are not in one particular location. They are scattered aomong various archives and records offices. Indices at the National Archives in Washington DC are as follows: Boston 1820 -1846 and 1902-1920. New York 1820 -1846 and 1897-1943 Baltimore 1820- 1952 New Orleans 1853 - 1952 Philadelphia 1800 -1948 AMERICA'S FIRST IMMIGRATION CENTRE Castle Garden offers free access to a database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 - 1892. http://www.castlegarden.org/ ELLIS ISLAND opened in 1892, the first passenger to register through the station was 14 year old Annie Moore, who had with her two brothers departed from Queenstown (Co.Cork, Ireland) on the SS Nevada 12 days before. Ellis Island officially closed in 1954 A case of mistaken identity is solved; making the news in September of 2006 a group of genealogist learn what became of the "real" Annie Moore. See the story and other genealogy related videos on Roots Television. http://www.rootstelevision.com/players/player_irishroots.php It's smooth sailing on this easy to navigate site http://www.ellisisland.org/ with an online data base of detailed records for more than 22 million immigrants who came through the Gateway to America from 1892 to 1924. FREE Search. NO Subscription Required. SOUNDEX included. NEWS CLIP - Sunday May 7th, 2006 Lillian Gertrude Asplund was 5 years old when the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The last American survivor of the Titanic sinking on April,15th,1912, she died peacefully in Massachucetts at 99 years old. Learn more about the RMS Titanic "the ship of dreams". Passenger and cargo list on Think Quest webpage: http://library.thinkquest.org/21583/to/pass.htm THE SHIPS LIST this site allows totally free access to 1500 web - pages of passenger list for Australia, Canada, USA 1700s onward * Famine ships http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html GOLD RUSH SHIPS a free search engine for some 30,000 ships, captains and passengers NEW LISTS: The New Orleans - Panama - Captain H. Lake Eleanor Lancaster - Sydney, Australia to San Fransico The Chronicles of Captain William Jackson Barry http://www.maritimeheritage.org/ Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line IRISH PASSENGER LISTS 1847 - 1871 compiled by Brian Mitchell ISBN 0-8063-1206-8 Available through the Genealogical Publishing Company
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Some of the information that may be found on ship passenger list: one's nationality, *place of birth, ship name, port of entry, date of arrival, age, physical description of passenger, profession, amount of money on person, who paid the passage, name and address of relatives they are joining in the U.S., *place of last residence The importance of SOUNDEX as a search tool cannot be overstated. It was often the case with immigration that the prefix of a surname was dropped, the name was miss-spelled, or a nickname was used in place of the Christian name.
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