Databases: Searchable Online » Immigration, Emigration & Migration

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• 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.

  • Castle Garden years (1855-1891) plus other New York Arrivals

  • Ellis Island Search Forms and Ship Arrivals

    One-Step search of Ellis Island immigration records covering the years 1892 to 1924. Includes Missing Manifests Search and Morton Allan Directory. This search requires a subscription to a pay-for-use database.

  • Other Ports of Immigration

• 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.

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