Emmigration and immigration records provide useful information about our ancestors' movement around the world. For every emmigration record there is often a matching immigration record. Often the details differ, so it worth looking for both.
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
Link: | https://www.1820settlers.com/ |
Description: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
Extra Info: | Information about the 1820 British settlers to South Africa, including transcribed letters, photographs and pictures of some of the settlers and a forum. |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | 1820 Settler Correspondence - Cape of Good Hope |
Link: | https://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/ |
Description: | Letters from the Settlers of the Cape of Good Hope |
Extra Info: | This correspondence concerns the immigration scheme for the Cape of Good Hope following the Napoleonic Wars. |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
Link: | https://www.bifhsgo.ca/ |
Description: | British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
Extra Info: | Click on projects. Includes lists of the 'home children' the children who travelled to Canada between 1869-1932. |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
Title: | British Nationalisations 1844-1990 |
Link: | Naturalisation certificate records for those who became naturalised British subjects, by Find My Past |
Description: | Naturalisation certificate records for those who became naturalised British subjects, by Find My Past |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists |
Link: | http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/ImmNat/... |
Description: | Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
Title: | Denise & Peter's Website Including Ships Passenger Lists |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/ |
Description: | Denise & Peter's Website Including Ships Passenger Lists for Emigrants into New Zealand |
Extra Info: | Also includes details of areas settled by groups of people. |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Ellis Island - Deaths in Quarantine |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/genealog... |
Description: | Ellis Island - Deaths in Quarantine |
Extra Info: | List those who died in quarantine at Ellis Island. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Ellis Island Foundation |
Link: | https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/passenger |
Description: | Ellis Island - Port of New York Passenger Records 1892-1954 |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Emigration Database |
Link: | https://www.dunbrody.com/ |
Description: | Emigration Database from the Dunbrody Famine Ship Website |
Extra Info: | The Dunbrody famine ship carried many Irish passenger to America. Although this website includes a database of Irish emigration many of those on the list are English, Welsh and Scottish. |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | England's Immigrants 1330-1550 |
Link: | https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/ |
Description: | A fully-searchable database of people known to have migrated to England during the period 1330-1550 |
Extra Info: | A fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild |
Link: | https://www.immigrantships.net/ |
Description: | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild |
Extra Info: | Includes records by ship, by departure point, by arrival point and also name search. Over 9000 ships passenger lists online. |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Irish Emigration to New England |
Link: | Irish Emigration to New England |
Description: | Irish Emigration to New England through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849 |
Extra Info: | Includes emigrant deaths. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Irish Immigration & Travel Records |
Link: | https://www.findmypast.ie/search-records/Travel-and-migration |
Description: | Find My Past's Immigration & Travel |
Extra Info: | Includes Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858-1870 |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Italian Genealogical Group - US Naturalisations |
Link: | https://www.italiangen.org/ |
Description: | Italian Genealogical Group - US Naturalisations |
Extra Info: | Click on Databases Naturalizations, then scroll down the pages for the database search. |
Classification: | Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Medievalists.net |
Link: | https://www.medievalists.net/ |
Description: | Where the Middle Ages begin. |
Extra Info: | Includes the largest-ever study of Viking genetics |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20140407043350/http://m... |
Description: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information and photographs still seem to be available. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships |
Link: | http://www.norwayheritage.com/ |
Description: | Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships |
Extra Info: | Includes some searchable passenger lists. also information about the ships and lists documenting their individual voyages, as well as pictures of the ships. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Passenger Lists to New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigration |
Link: | New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 |
Description: | New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 |
Extra Info: | Assisted immigrants had their passages subsidized or paid for by another person or agency. This collection is four different series of records. Information listed may include name, age, and native place. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | Passengers in History |
Link: | https://passengers.history.sa.gov.au/ |
Description: | Passengers in History - An initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum |
Extra Info: | The passengers data base was produced by staff and volunteers at the South Australian Maritime Museum over 20 years. It includes entries for 328,000 passengers and 20,000 voyages to South Australia between 1836 and 1961. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | South African Passenger Lists |
Link: | http://www.eggsa.org/arrivals/lists.html |
Description: | South African Passenger Lists |
Extra Info: | The eGSSA branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa has embarked on a project to transcribe all the passenger lists in the South African Archives. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
Link: | https://www.sa-passenger-list.za.net/ |
Description: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from London, Glasgow, Liverpool etc. to Natal (Durban) and Cape Town. Also includes details of Haidee settlers. |
Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | The National Archives Online Collections |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
Description: | The National Archives - Collection of Digitised Public Records |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | The National Archives Online Collections Maps |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | The National Archives - Collection of Digitised Public Records |
Extra Info: | Scroll down for Irish map collection. |
Classification: | Valuation Books, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | WALSH Family One Name Study. |
Link: | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~walsh/ |
Description: | Walsh family heritage |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
Title: | GENUKI Country Page for Ireland |
Link: | https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/ |
Description: | General Information for Ireland |
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