Databases: Searchable Online » Immigration, Emigration & Migration

Ancestry.com - Immigration

Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription.

Danish Emigration Archives

Searchable database for 1869 to 1904, working on records thru 1940.

Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search

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

Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - Databases

Norwegian census, land, church, emigration, probate records, etc.

Institute of Migration - Siirtolaisuusinstituutti - The Emigrant Register

Online searchable database of over 400,000 entries from passport, passenger list, and other records of Finns who emigrated.

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.

Scottish Emigration Database

Online searchable database containing the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.