American passenger arrival records a guide to the records of immigrants arriving at American ports by sail and steam
by Michael Tepper
- Baltimore Genealogical Pub. Co 1988
- 134 p.
The Colonial period -- The Beginning of federal passenger arrival records -- Customs passenger lists -- Immigratin passenger lists
Lured by opportunity or driven by necessity, millions of people made their way to America in the most determined and sustained migration the world has ever known. Initially they left traces of their immigration in scattered records and documents; later, their arrival in this country was documented so minutely that the records resulting from this documentation are among the largest, the most continuous, and the most uniform in the nation's archives ...
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Genealogy --Handbooks, manuals, etc. Ships--Passenger Lists--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Registers of biths, etc.--Hand--United States Book, Manuels, ect. United States--Emicgration and Immigration