Immigrant Ships

Lists passengers from all over the world who arrived in ports throughout the U.S.A., some as early as during the 1600s giving passengers on each ship, the ports from which it departed and at which it arrived, together with any available information about their individual origins, occupations, etc.  The site and can be searched by name, or browsed by country of origin and ship, etc.

Scots Emigration Database

The Scottish Emigration Database currently contains 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.

Ellis Island

Ellis Island was the main point of immigration to the USA from 1892 until 1954.  Search the database of 65 million passenger records.

Castle Garden

Castle Garden was the first official US immigration Centre.  Here you can search eleven million records of immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1820 until 1892.