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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.

• 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  Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents.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.

  • Naturalizations - PA Eastern

    Original source: NARA M1522. Naturalization Petitions for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1795-1930.

  • Naturalizations - PA Middle

    Original source: NARA M1626. Naturalization records for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1906-1930, also include US Circuit Court records for 1901-1906.

  • Naturalizations - PA Western

    Original source: NARA M1537. Naturalization petitions of the US District Court, 1820-1930, and the Circuit Court, 1820-1922, for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

• ISTG - Philadelphia Arrivals - Vol. 1

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - Philadelphia Arrivals - Vol. 2

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - Philadelphia Arrivals - Vol. 3

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - Philadelphia Arrivals - Vol. 4

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - Philadelphia Arrivals - Vol. 5

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• ISTG - Philadelphia Arrivals - Vol. 6

  From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

• Naturalizations: Researching Philadelphia Records

• Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists to Pennsylvania After 1800 - Present

  Search for ships passengers on ships to Pennsylvania after passenger lists were kept. NARA and FHC film numbers are provided. Search by year or port of arrival, or use the Ships to Pennsylvania search engine.

• Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists to Pennsylvania Before 1600-1699

  Search for ships passengers on ships to Pennsylvania before passenger lists were mandatory. Search by year or port of arrival, or use my Ships to Pennsylvania search engine.

• Palatine Ships Passenger Lists from Germany to Pennsylvania 1727 to 1808

  Search ships passenger lists carrying Palatines from Germany to Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Read an explanation of Palatines and their ordeal.

• Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia 1800-1819

  A book by Elizabeth P. Bentley.

• Passenger Ship Records - PA Archives

• Pennsylvania German Pioneers Online Passenger Lists | Palatine Ships

  Passenger lists of the ships carrying German immigrants to Philadelphia 1727-1808.

• Philadelphia Passenger Lists Index 1800-1906

  FHL and NARA Microfilm Catalog Numbers from Joe Beine.

• Philadelphia Passenger Lists Index 1883-1948

  FHL and NARA Microfilm Catalog Numbers from Joe Beine.

• Philadelphia: Immigrant City

  The Washington Avenue immigrant processing station on the banks of the Delaware from colonial times to 1924.

• Ship Passenger Lists of the Palatine Germans to Pennsylvania

  Search passenger lists for German-speaking German, Swiss, Dutch and French (Palatine) immigrants (1727-1808) both on-site and across the internet. Includes a history of Palatines to America.

• The Causes of Palatine Emigration

  Excerpted from Early Palatine Emigration by Walter Allen Knittle.