{"id":181,"date":"2009-05-11T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:40:36","slug":"passenger-lists-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/passenger-lists-to-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Lists to America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newspapers routinely published the list of passengers on board ships bound to and from America. Here are just a few examples of the thousands of passenger lists published in newspapers that can be found in GenealogyBank<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Newspapers published not just lists of immigrants coming to America but also regularly published passenger lists of American’s going overseas; American’s returning home to the US and American’s traveling within the United States by ship.
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\nNotice in this example from the Irish-American newspaper, The Shamrock<\/em><\/a> (17 Aug 1816) – published in New York City – that these passengers left from the port of Sligo, Ireland on board the brig Juno and landed in New London, CT.<\/em> There they boarded the “sloop MacDonough” which in turn set sail for New York City – where they arrived on 16 August 1816. <\/strong><\/span>
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This pre-1820 passenger list tells us that these immigrants landed twice<\/em> on their trip to America, that they took two ships <\/em>to finally reach their destination – an alert that their names will appear on two different passenger lists. Once on the passenger list for the brig Juno<\/em> that landed in New London, CT and again on the passenger list for the sloop MacDonough<\/em> that landed in New York City. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Notice also that this passenger list gives the hometown or county of origin of each passenger. Critical information that is almost never given in the Federal post-1820 passenger lists. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tip: Passenger lists were not collected by the government until 1820 – these early lists can be difficult if not impossible to find. Newspapers are a terrific source for Colonial passenger lists. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Click on these links to see a few examples of the thousands of passenger lists, published in newspapers that can be found in GenealogyBank<\/a>.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Passenger Lists of Columbus, GA<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n3 April 1894. Steamer Queen City<\/em>.<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>
\nColumbus (GA) Daily Inquirer.<\/em> 3 April 1894<\/strong><\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Passenger Lists New Orleans, LA<\/strong><\/span>
\n20 February 1869. Steamship Crescent City<\/em>. From New York City.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>
\nTimes Picayune<\/em>. 20 February 1869<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong>
\n23 October 1872. Steamship Saxonia<\/em>. Left for Hamburg (Germany) by way of Havana (Cuba), Santander (Spain) and Havre (France).<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>
\nTimes Picayune<\/em>. 23 October 1872. p. 1<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n29 April 1873. Steamship John G. Meiggs<\/em>. Left for Aspinwall (Panama); Port Limon (Costa Rica); and Havanna (Cuba).<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>
\nTimes Picayune. <\/em>29 April 1873. p. 8<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n25 August 1875. Steamship City of Merida<\/em>. Arrived from Vera Cruz, Tuxpan, and Tampico – all ports in Mexico.<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>
\nTimes Picayune<\/em>. 25 August 1875. p. 1<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Passenger Lists New York City, NY<\/strong><\/span>
\n11 June 1819. Ship Amity<\/em>. Left for Liverpool (England)<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>. 12 June 1819. p. 3<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n11 June 1819. Ship Atlantic<\/em>. From Liverpool (England)<\/span><\/strong>
\nPhiladelphia Inquirer<\/em>. 12 June 1819. p. 3<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n11 June 1819. Ship Magnet<\/em>. From Liverpool (England)<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong>Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/em> 12 June 1819. p. 3<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n12 June 1848. Steamship Washington<\/em>. From Southampton (England), by way of Halifax (Nova Scotia).<\/span><\/strong>
\nNew York Herald. 16 Jan 1848. p. 2<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Passenger Lists Philadelphia, PA<\/span><\/strong>
\n5 Nov 1881. Steamship City of Savannah<\/em>. Departed for Savannah (Georgia). <\/span><\/strong>
\nPhiladelphia Inquirer.<\/em> 7 Nov 1881. p. 2<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n13 July 1883. Steamship Niagara<\/em>. Marine Disaster. Burned off the coast of Florida.<\/span><\/strong>
\nPhiladelphia Inquirer<\/em>. 14 July 1883. p. 1<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n23 June 1891. Steamship Polynesia<\/em>. Enroute from Hamburg, Germany.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>
\nPhiladelphia Inquirer.<\/em> 23 June 1891. p. 4<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n10 September 1901. Steamship Alleghany<\/em>. Enroute from the South.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>
\nPhiladelphia Inquirer<\/em>. 10 September 1901. p. 16<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Passenger Lists San Francisco, CA<\/span><\/strong>
\n6 September 1871.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>
\nSan Francisco Bulletin.<\/em> 6 September 1871. p. 3<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to download and search the complete 1819\/1820 Passenger List for all US ports<\/span><\/a>. This free resource is a good example of genealogical content in the historical newspapers, books and documents that can be found in GenealogyBank.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>
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Newspapers routinely published the list of passengers on board ships bound to and from America. Here are just a few examples of the thousands of passenger lists published in newspapers that can be found in GenealogyBank. Newspapers published not just lists of immigrants coming to America but also regularly published passenger lists of American’s going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1076,1128,5,544,1878,7,1653,521,682,1129,1109,884,1661,427,2076,1086,1565,465,1674,1829,497,68,629,717,656,760,1874,520,421,455,878,1038,27,530,464,1929,509,716,625,1163,519,689,1482,761,518,462,442,494,1087,1704],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-america","tag-american","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-center","tag-colonial","tag-columbus","tag-ct","tag-england","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-ga","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-georgia","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-halifax","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-id","tag-in","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-la","tag-lafourche-parish","tag-london","tag-mexico","tag-ms","tag-new-london","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-ny","tag-off","tag-or","tag-pa","tag-paul-breaux","tag-pdf","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-inquirer","tag-san-francisco","tag-savannah","tag-spain","tag-times-picayune","tag-tip","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-washington","tag-york"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100203,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/100203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}