Ports of Entry » Galveston, Texas

Atlantic, Gulf, and Great Lakes Ports, 1820-1873

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Finding Passenger Arrival Records at the Port of Galveston, Texas

Article by Joe Beine.

Galveston Historical Foundation - Galveston Historic Seaport

Located in the historic port of Galveston, the Texas Seaport Museum explores Texas' history of seaborne commerce and immigration.

Galveston: Ellis Island of the West

A book by Bernard Marinbach.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

Passengers on Ships Arriving in Galveston in 1885

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1891--1957 - Galveston, Texas

Lists of microfilm roll numbers from the National Archives and Records Administration.

Ships Passenger Lists Port of Galveston, Texas, 1846-1871

A book by the Galveston County Genealogical Society.

Ships Passenger Lists to Galveston Texas 1846 - 1871

The Galveston-Bremen Project

Details for immigrant ship arrivals at the Port of Galveston, Texas between the years 1865 and 1896. It contains the following: a list of immigrant vessels that arrived between the years of 1865 and 1896 arrival and departure data passenger list availability (citations included) transcribed passenger lists taken from newspaper accounts and souvenir passenger lists (alternative sources) an index of surnames listed on the passenger lists available from alternative sources.