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• Abuses at the Barge Office

  From an article originally published in The New York Times on June 3, 1900.

• Alms House Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records with Ships Names 1855-1858 (New York City, NY)

  Searchable database of Alms House records of New York City 1855-1858. These records provide immigration details, ages, places of birth and more. They list immigrants to Quebec, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Boston.

• Ancestry.com - Castle Garden: The Forgotten Gateway

  Article by Barry Moreno.

  • Castle Clinton (Castle Garden) National Monument

    From the National Park Service. Located in Battery Park on the southern-most tip of Manhattan, Castle Garden was the arrival point of some eight million immigrants who entered New York harbor from 1855 to 1890. It was the Ellis Island of its day.

  • Castle Garden

    Free online searchable database of over 10 million immigrants who arrived at Castle Garden at the tip of Manhattan between 1830 and 1892. Searchable by name. Before Ellis Island was opened, Castle Garden functioned as the first official immigration center in the United States as a collaboration between the State of New York and New York City. Information in the online database is taken from the original ships' manifests and provides occupation, age, sex, date of arrival, place of origin and ship name. Results of advanced searches require a fee-for-download.

    • Castle Garden Timeline

    • Example of Ship Manifest

  • Immigrant's Story - Castle Garden

    From the New York Times of December 23, 1866.

  • Immigration and the Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York

    A book by Friedrich Kapp.

  • Steve Morse's One-Step Castle Garden Search Engine

    One-Step search of Castle Garden immigration records covring the years 1851 to 1891. This search requires a subscription to a pay-for-use database.

  • The ShipsList - Ships Pictures, Ports and Logos

    • Castle Garden

      Engravings and photographs of Castle Garden.

    • Castle Garden 1855

      New York Daily Times article about the opening of the new immigrant depot.

    • Wards Island Immigration Station

      Engravings of the Emigrant Hospital.

• 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.

  • Irish Immigrants: New York Port Arrival Records, 1846-1851

    Original source: Famine Irish Entry Project, 1846-1851. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

  • New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

    Original source: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls); Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; (National Archives Microfilm Publication T715, 8892 rolls); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• 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.

  • Naturalization Index - NY Eastern Jul 1865-Sep 1906

    Original source: NARA M1164. A card index to naturalization petitions filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York from July 1865 through September 1906.

  • Naturalization Index - NY Eastern Nov 1925-Dec 1957

    Original source: NARA M1164. A card index to naturalization petitions filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York from November 1925 through December 1957.

  • Naturalization Index - NY Eastern Oct 1906-Nov 1925

    Original source: NARA M1164. A card index to naturalization petitions filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York from October 1907 through November 1925.

  • Naturalization Index - NY Southern Intentions

    Original source: NARA M1675. Alphabetical Index to Declarations of Intention of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1917-1950.

  • Naturalization Index - NY Southern Petitions

    Original source: NARA M1676. Alphabetical Index to Petitions for Naturalization of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1824-1941.

  • Naturalization Index - NY Western

    Original source: NARA M1677. Alphabetical Index to Petitions for Naturalizations of the US District Court for the Western District of New York, 1907-1966.

  • Naturalization Index - NYC Courts

    Original source: NARA M1674. The Soundex index to naturalization petitions filed in federal, state, and local courts in New York City, including New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond counties, 1792-1906.

• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854

  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.

• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867

  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.

• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1868-1871

  A book by Gary J. Zimmerman.

• He is on the 1914 Manifest!

  Article by Michael John Neill on using the Ellis Island Web site to find an entry on a 1914 manifest.

• Instructions for reading New York passenger list soundex cards after 1910

  Article by Joe Beine.

• ISTG - New York Arrivals - Vol. 1

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - New York Arrivals - Vol. 2

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - New York Arrivals - Vol. 3

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - New York Arrivals - Vol. 4

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - New York Arrivals - Vol. 5

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - New York Arrivals - Vol. 6

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• Microfilm Numbers for Registers of Vessels Arriving at the Port of New York 1789-1919

  FHL and NARA Microfilm Catalog Numbers from Joe Beine.

• Microfilm Numbers for the New York Passenger Lists Index July 1902-Dec 1943

  FHL and NARA Microfilm Catalog Numbers from Joe Beine.

• Microfilm Numbers for the New York Passenger Lists Index June 1897-June 1902

  FHL and NARA Microfilm Catalog Numbers from Joe Beine.

• National Archives and Records Administration

  United States.

  • Genealogical Resources at the National Archives

  • Research Topics of Genealogical Interest

    • Immigration Records (Ship Passenger Arrival Records)

      • Records for Passengers Who Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine

        These materials identify 604,596 persons who arrived in the Port of New York, 1846-1851, and the ships on which they arrived. Approximately 70 percent of the passenger records list Ireland as the native country.

        • Search the Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File

        • Search the List of Ships that Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine