Online Immigration and Naturalization Web Sites

Immigration records are usually in the form of passenger lists. There are a number of FREE web sites with many passenger lists of people coming into the USA from other countries. They include:

** Ellis Island (NY) Passenger List Records: New York City Passenger Database, 1892-1923 -- http://www.ellisisland.org/

** Castle Garden (NY) Passenger List Records: New York City Passenger Database, to 1892 -- http://www.castlegarden.org/

** Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: Passenger lists for many ports transcribed by volunteers -- http://www.immigrantships.net/

** Finding Passenger Lists & Immigration Records 1820-1940s: Arrivals at US Ports from Europe (links to commercial web sites) -- http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html

** Steve Morse One-Step Web Pages – Search Immigration, NYC Vital Records, Census, etc. (links to commercial web sites) -- http://www.stevemorse.org/

** Olive Tree Genealogy Ship Passenger Lists (links to commercial web site links) -- http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/

** www.Ancestry.com (commercial web site) has many databases for immigration and emigration - see their list at http://search.ancestry.com/search/default.aspx?cat=40

The USA National Archives web page at http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/index.html provides information about the ship passenger list holdings at the Archives buildings around the country.

There are also several sites with Online Naturalization indexes and records, including:

** There is a Guide to finding naturalization records online at http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalizationrecords.html

** Online Naturalization Records and Indexes (links to commercial web sites) -- http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalization.html

The USA National Archives web page at http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/naturalization/index.html provides information about the naturalization records holdings at the Archives buildings around the country.

If any readers know of additional web sites that have significant collections of immigration and naturalization records, please comment on this post.