Ports of Entry » Boston, Massachusetts

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• Ancestry.com - Boston Port Arrivals and Immigrants, 1715-1716, 1762-1769

  Searchable database available by subscription.

• 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.

• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

  • ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 1

  • ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 2

  • ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 3

  • ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 4

  • ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 5

  • ISTG - Boston Arrivals - Vol. 6

• 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by ship in January of 1848, a procedure which continued until July of 1891, when federal records-keeping programs superseded those of the state.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.

• 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.

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