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American Family Immigration History Center

Online searchable database of over 22 million passenger names covering roughly 70% of the immigrants processed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.

BallinStadt Hamburg

Searchable database extracted from the Hamburg Passenger Lists for selected years. A major port of embarkation for Eastern Europeans.

Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank / German Emigrant Database

From the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven. Intends to provide a searchable database of all European emigrants who emigrated to North America from German ports between 1820 and 1939. Sources are passenger lists. Current database may be searched at the museum in Bremerhaven or by mail for a fee.

Ellis Island Database One-Step Search Tools

Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850–1934 Resource Guide

Library & Archives Canada - Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers (LI-RA-MA) Collection

When completed the collection will contain approximately 11,400 files including passports, passport applications, identity papers and questionnaires containing general information for Jewish, Ukrainian and Finnish immigrants who came to Canada between 1898 and 1922. This collection of the consular offices of the Russian Empire in Canada corresponds to the Russian Consular Records series in the United States.

Meeting of Frontiers

A bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration & settlement of the West, the parallel exploration & settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, & the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska & the Pacific Northwest. From the Library of Congress. Includes digital images of maps, original documents & photographs.

Merika - Emigration from Central Europe to America 1880 – 1914 | Rijeka Municipal Museum

The aim of this exhibition is to remind us of the complex organization of the trans-Atlantic exodus and of touching destinies of emigrants. A beautiful rendering of the experiences of Eastern European emigrants.

Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists, Russians to America

Russian Immigration Records : 1834 - 1897

Extensive searchable database of records on over half a million passengers who arrived at the United States between 1834 through 1897 and identified their country of origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine.