Immigration

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.