U.S. Records and Passenger Lists

Problems: Names, transcription errors, incorrect family information, don’t know port or exact immigration year, searching wrong port, missing manifests. Searching requires skill, persistence, and serendipity.

FFA Chart	Immigrant	Dates	Ship	Homestead Origin	Ship Departure	Ship Arrival
1	Thomas French, Jr. Thomas French, Sr.	1630 1635	Winthrop Fleet	Assington, Suffolk, England		New England, Ipswich, MA
2	William French	July 1635	Defence	Greenstreet, Essex, England	St. Gabriel Fenchurch, London	New England, Cambridge, MA
3	John French	Pre-1637		Great Tey, Essex, England		New England, Cambridge, MA
4	Edward French		Not the Angel Gabriel	Warwickshire, England		New England, Ipswich then Salisbury, MA
5	John French			Dorset, England		New England, Braintree, MA
6	Richard French	Pre-1647		Coggeshall, Essex, England		New England, Cambridge then Marshfield, MA
7	Stephen French	30 May 1630	Mary and John	Misterton, Somerset, England		New England, Weymouth, MA by 1636
8	Francis French	July 1635	Defence	Essex, England	St. Gabriel Fenchurch, London	New England, Cambridge, MA then New Haven, CT
9	Thomas French			Sussex, England		New England, then Guilford, CT

11	Samuel French			Bradford Abbas, Dorset, England
20	Thomas French			Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England		New Jersey
42	Thomas French			Penhurst, Sussex, England

	More to come. . .

Resources

They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Arrival Record, by John Colleta, 2002. No surnames. Details what’s available and where you can find passenger arrival records.

http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/manifests -- A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations

http://www.ilw.com/articles/2005,0808-smith.shtm -- American Names: Declaring Independence

http://www.genealogybranches.com -- Joe Beine’s Passenger Lists by Country

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7486 -- 1500-1900s

http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=pili -- Searchable Passenger and Immigration Index by Name

http://ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=40 -- Immigration and Travel

http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/passenger-arrival.html

http://www.immigrantships.net

http://www.theshipslist.com

http://www.ellisisland.org -- from 1892 to 1924 to Port of New York (22 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members)

http://www.castlegarden.org -- before Ellis Island, 1855-1890

https://familysearch.org -- New York Passenger Lists from Family History Library (FHL)

http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigrations/passenger-arrival.html -- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

http://www.archives.gov/locations -- National Archives Locations Nationwide

http://search.ancestry.com/search.db.aspx?dbid=1068 -- from 1850 from Hamburg

http://www.passengerlists.de/ -- From Bremen, Germany, mostly later years

http://www.findmypast.com/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action (subscription)

http://immigrants.byu.edu -- Brigham Young University

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1193 -- U.S. Naturalization Records, 1795-1972

www.fold3.com -- military records

http://www.genealogybranches.com/#naturalization

http://www.uscis.gov/ -- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1075 -- Border Crossings from Canada to U.S. 1895-1956

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1263 -- Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174 -- U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925

www.newenglandancestors.org/database_search/gen_GreatMigrations.asp -- cannot find

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4714 -- Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, lists over 100 Frenches

http://www.stevemorse.org -- Ellis Island, post-1820, first read “About this Website”

http://ancestry.com/search/db.aspex?dbid=7488 == good place to start

http://www.theshipslist.com/ -- Ships from 1700

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/peterrobinsonindex.htm -- Ships from Cork to Canada in 1823 and 1825

http://members.shaw.ca/canada_legal_history/on.htm -- Canada Death Penalty Index