Information regarding immigration into Canada.

This free site a much overlooked site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. More than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

This is an online collection of databases comprised of the Morton Allan Directory, M1066 Microfilm series from NARA, various newspaper articles, Internet sources.

From 1892 to 1924, more than 25 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. The ship companies that transported these passengers kept detailed passenger lists, called "ship manifests."

The Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) was organized in 1992 to promote family research in eastern and central Europe. It provides a forum for individuals and organizations focused on a single country or group of people to exchange information and be updated on developments in the field.

At findmypast.co.uk you can search over 1.5 billion records for free, but you will need to pay to view the original images and transcriptions. Records collections available are: Births and baptisms, churches and religion, deaths and burials, census, land & surveys, education & work, institutions & organizations, military, armed forces & conflict, newspapers, directories and social history. Additionally the special collections, and travel & migrations could be very useful to the researcher.

Lists of passengers on of vessels sailing from Hamburg between 1850 and 1934 survive in the Hamburg State Archive [Staatsarchiv], Bestand Auswandereramt. The passenger lists consist of two series: Direct and Indirect Lists. The direct list contains the names of those passengers on vessels that sailed from Hamburg directly to an overseas port. The indirect list containing the names of those passengers who proceded from Hamburg to an intermediate British or other European port, where they boarded other vessels for their ultimate destination.

The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, uses emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. 4,000+ Passenger Manifests in 14 Volumes plus numerous other passengers listed in Special Projects. Searches can be made by ship, departure, arrival, or year.

The Olive Tree Genealogy, was created in February 1996 and was started to bring genealogists FREE genealogy records. Olive Tree Genealogy has more than 1,900 pages of free genealogy records to help you find your brick-wall ancestors and build your family tree.

This list consists of descriptions of merchant vessels, both sail and steam, compiled by Michael Palmer over many years from a variety of sources. This site provides nice descriptions of the vessels as well as some photos. Much of this information is derived from secondary works and might contain errors but still worth a look.

This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.

U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – Alien registration files may be found on this site.