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Ancestry.com - Search Immigration & Travel

Passenger lists, citizenship, naturalization, and other immigration sources. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Searching for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in “The Boston Pilot," 1831-1920 $

Original source: Harris, Ruth-Ann M., Donald M. Jacobs, and B. Emer O’Keeffe, editors. Searching for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in “The Boston Pilot 1831–1920”. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1989. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Boston Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1820-1943

A list of research material for locating Boston passenger records. Included are microfilmed records and indexes, a CD-Rom, and an online index.

Finding Passenger Arrival Records at the Port of Boston, Massachusetts 1820-1943

Article by Joe Beine.

Findmypast - New England Naturalizations, 1791-1906 $

Fold3 - Naturalization Records $

Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 1

From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 2

From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 3

From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 4

From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 5

From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 6

From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

Massachusetts Archives - Passenger Manifest (1848-1891)

Massachusetts officials started recording the names of immigrants who arrived by ship in January of 1848, a procedure which continued until July of 1891, when federal records-keeping programs superseded those of the state. Although immigrants arrived at numerous Massachusetts ports, the Archives holds manifests for BOSTON ONLY.

OliveTreeGenealogy.com: Shipwrecks and Ships of Gloucester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Search for those lost at sea in this list of vessels sailing out of Gloucester Massachusetts, and their crews between the years 1830 to October 1, 1873. There are 1437 names of those lost, plus the names of 296 ships in this set of records. Areas where the ships went down includes Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Massachusetts, Boston, Maine and more.

SAMPUBCO, Massachusetts Naturalization Indexes, Probates

Indexes for: Wills and Heirs, Surrogate's Records / Probate / Estate Files, Guardianships, Naturalizations, Miscellaneous Orders and Decrees, Letters of Administration, Letters Testamentary, Petitions for Administration, Proofs of Wills, Cemetery Burials, Renunications, Biographies. You can order copies of the original source documents for a small fee. This service pertains only to entries found in the indexes on this web site.

Swedish America Heritage Online - Illinois, New York, Massachusetts

The purpose of this website is for educational and historical research. It digitally preserves the genealogy data and images of Swedish American emigrants, their ancestors and descendants. If you find a match on our data base with one of your ancestors, please assist us by becoming a registered user and update the appropriate branch that includes your family. There is no fee for this service.

Thomas Gardner Society, Inc.

The Thomas Gardner Society, Inc. aims to promote, and sponsor, a continuing educational mode with respect to the experiences, and accomplishments, of the Cape Ann party (1623/24) led by Thomas Gardner. The focus is cultural, biographical, historical, and genealogical in the context of both general, and scholarly, knowledge.