Early American Passenger List Books

Every genealogist hopes someday to find the identity of his or her immigrant ancestor. For sheer excitement in genealogy, there’s nothing quite like discovering who brought your family to the U.S. and learning what compelled or inspired the family to make a new life for themselves in North America. The genealogist’s fascination with the immigration process–and with the challenge of solving problems related to it–explains why ships’ passenger lists are among the most popular group of records in American genealogy. 

If you’re on the trail of a passenger list, consider the following: The ships’ passenger lists compiled on our reference books are among the earliest in existence. In fact, most of these lists date before 1820, when the federal government began compiling official passenger arrival records. If you are on the trail of ancestors who arrived before 1800, our collection of passenger records, painstakingly culled from archives and repositories by an army of transcribers over many years, is where you should start your search. 

• American Passenger Arrival Records
• The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1700-1750
• Jamestown People to 1800
• Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1783. Consolidated Edition
• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783
• A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, 1620-1675
• Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650
• The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786
• Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867
• Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819
• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854, With Places of Origin
• Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York. Volume 1: January 1875-September 1882
• Without Indentures: Index to White Slave Children in Colonial Court Records
• More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
• New World Immigrants
• Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819
• Ships of Our Ancestors
• The Famine Immigrants [Vol. VII]
• The Canary Islands Migration to Louisiana, 1778-1783