Ellis Island (free)
Passenger database search, genealogy research tools
and links, and history of Ellis Island and the Statue of
Liberty.
Online Searchable Naturalization Indexes &
Records (free)
A list of resources and links to find information on
immigration and naturalization of your ancestors, courtesy of
GermanRoots.com.
Migrations (free)
They came for a season, they left and went where? Why did they go
and who went with them? So many questions about the migrations of
our ancestors.
Passport Applications (free)
(U.S. National Archives)The National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) has passport applications from
Oct. 1795-Mar. 1925. The U.S.
Department of State has passport applications
from Apr 1925 to the present.
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
(ISTG) (free)
11,000+ Passenger Manifests in 12 Volumes plus
numerous other passengers listed in Special Projects.
Castle Garden (free)
CastleGarden.org is an educational project of The
Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an
extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from
1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 100 million
Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration
period.
U.S. Citizen and Immigration
Services (free)
The USCIS Genealogy Program is a fee-for-service
program providing family historians and other researchers
with timely access to historical immigration and naturalization
records of deceased immigrants.