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NY ARRIVALS - New York Passenger Arrivals - New York Arrivals

Immigration site with details about New York passenger arrivals and the Port of New York. Tips on searching online archives, differences between Castle Garden and Ellis Island arrivals, American Immigration history and timeline, and detailed examples showing how to extract information from passenger manifests and use in conjunction with other sources.

NYG&B - Helpful Facts About Immigration to New York

NYG&B - Researching Irish ancestors in New York State: What you need to know

Olive Tree Genealogy: Search Engines for Ships Passenger Lists to New York

Custom Search Engine allows you to search multiple Internet sites for Passenger Lists of ships going to New York, United States.

Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists, New York Times Ships Passenger Lists Arrivals and Departures 1851

These are lists of passenger names extracted from New York Times Ship Arrivals for September 1851. The ships arrived from a variety of ports both USA and foreign. These are partial passenger lists only, as published in accounts in the newspaper.

Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists, Ship Perseverance

Passenger List of Ship Perseverance, Belfast Ireland to New York 1811.

Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists, Ship Vandalia

Passenger List of Ship Vandalia, Hamburg and Havre to New York 1881.

Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes

A directory of online New York naturalization indexes listed by county. By Joe Beine.

Orphan Train Riders of New York (Midwest)

From New York to Minnesota and the Midwest.

Passenger Arrivals At The Port Of New York

A book by Elizabeth Petty Bentley.

Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York 1820-1829: From Customs Passenger Lists

A book by Elizabeth P. Bentley.

Passengers on the Emigrant Ship Guy Mannering

Sailed from Liverpool on May 22, 1849; arrived New York, June 28th.

Port of New York, New York, 1820-1957

From National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Registers of Vessels Arriving at the Port of New York from Foreign Ports 1789

Good introduction to this important source from the St. Louis County Library.

Registers of Vessels Arriving at the Port of New York from Foreign Ports 1789

Finding aid from the Saint Louis County Public Library.

SAMPUBCO, New York Naturalization Indexes, Probates

Indexes for: Wills and Heirs, Surrogate's Records / Probate / Estate Files, Guardianships, Naturalizations, Miscellaneous Orders and Decrees, Letters of Administration, Letters Testamentary, Petitions for Administration, Proofs of Wills, Cemetery Burials, Renunications, Biographies. You can order copies of the original source documents for a small fee. This service pertains only to entries found in the indexes on this web site.

Swedish America Heritage Online - Illinois, New York, Massachusetts

The purpose of this website is for educational and historical research. It digitally preserves the genealogy data and images of Swedish American emigrants, their ancestors and descendants. If you find a match on our data base with one of your ancestors, please assist us by becoming a registered user and update the appropriate branch that includes your family. There is no fee for this service.

The Barge Office - 1898

Online article titled The Arrival of the Immigrant by Cromwell Childe in the New York Times Magazine, August 14, 1898.

Tracing Immigrants through the Port of New York (NYG&B) $

A book by Anne Sibert Buiter

Why and How New Yorkers Migrated to the Great Plains | New York Genealogical & Biographical Society

By David McDonald