The rhein was the type ship of the norddeutscher lloyd rheinclass of steamships, designed as freightemigrant carriers. Indexes immigration and shipping vice admiralty court of nsw, 17871911 one of the earliest courts established in new south wales, the vice admiralty court was an imperial court whereby directives, instructions, imperial bills and acts changing its structure or procedures as well as rules, regulations and tables of fees were received via. Several study tools are available to help you prepare. The rhein was the typeship of the norddeutscher lloyd rheinclass of steamships, designed as freightemigrant carriers. Helpful immigration information from census records.
So henry or hendryk as it is spelled in some early records, is the only child of henry sr. The records in new york port, ship images, 18511891 are linked to some of the ship passenger lists on ancestry and can be searched by passenger name as well. She weighed 3,376 gross tons, had a length of 364 feet and a beam of 42 feet, one. Dec 17, 2014 it is a oneclass ship and there are 1,500 people on its passenger list. Two other excellent timelines by the telelaget of america and the promise of america are more complete 1821. Guide to immigration records and ships passenger listssection 4. Immigrants to canada a university of waterloo project, which provides indexes for some passenger lists, as well as information about ships, immigration handbooks, and journals of voyages. Ship construction today is a complicated compound of art and science. Free ships passenger lists arriving in the usa 19001910. The alien registration number, which the department of homeland security assigns to each alien. You must answer correctly six 6 of the 10 questions to pass the civics test in english. Saev hernandez immigration practice, pllc is a fullservice immigration law firm in nashville, tennessee, serving companies, families and individuals locally and around the world. Brief information along with a photograph of each ship is included in this booklet. One of the most significant developments in genealogy was the compilation of indexes to some of the previously published immigration lists.
Voice of kremenets emigrants in israel and the diaspora. Ships and immigration polish genealogical society of america. Free databases on theshipslist, where you can find passenger lists, fleet lists, pictures, ship pictures, shipping schedules, ship descriptions, wreck data, and other information not found elsewhere. Immigrant ship transcribers guild istg searchable transcriptions of mostly 1820 to 1897 arrivals. The complete book of emigrants in bondage, 16141775.
Hans caspar died during the trip to america as did anna hinnen surber according to hans ulrich pfister in the booklet, zurcher emigration to america 17341735. Additional information on this subject can be found in the travel information manual. The most important source for ship and immigration list information. It records irish, english, scottish, and welsh immigrants arriving at the main us ports. Gauntlet the ship on which the edser family travelled to australia in 1873 was an iron hulled rather than wooden sailing vessel called gauntlet. The port maritime information gateway, national maritime museum, greenwich, london, england. The transatlantic liners bremen, europa, columbus, new york, hamburg, hansa, deutschland, st. Study booklet containing short lessons based on each of the 100 civics questions and answers on the naturalization test. Search for your ancestors in free ships passenger lists, naturalization records, palatine genealogy, canadian genealogy, american genealogy, native american genealogy, huguenots, mennonites, almshouse records, orphan records, church records, military muster rolls, census records, land records and more. Screenshot of results list from prov index to assisted british immigration 18391871. Immigrant ships transcribers guild 2 february 2001 if you find an ancestor on a ship on istg and would like to link to your email address or home page, please submit a short paragraph about the passenger, where settled, children, etc. Immigrant ships transcribers guild istg free the istg is a group of volunteers who transcribe ships passenger lists which are then placed on the istg web site. Khanna, us immigration attorney, hosts a free community conference call for all of you, every other thursday at 12.
In the great days of sail, vessels were designed and built on the basis of practical experience. Ships of the hollandamerica line can be found at the unofficial hollandamerica line page. Some of the online indexes or databases listed below include digitized images of the passenger. Microfilm numbers for passenger arrivals site detailing the holdings of passenger lists for post circa 1891 section 5. It was renamed the 1 ottowa 2 gul djemal 3 gulcemal email from ralph muraca. The information was collected from a multitude of sources, and new information will be added as it emerges photo of the s. It is a oneclass ship and there are 1,500 people on its passenger list. Step 4 after you find the ship name and date of arrival for your ancestor, get the image of the passenger. In towns like stavanger, bergen and trondheim there were head agents, controlling a network. Information contained in the index includes given name, surname, age, gender, arrival date, port of arrival, port of departure and ship name. The passenger lists include name of vessel, ports of embarkation and arrival, date of arrival, and. Passenger arrival records can help you determine when an ancestor arrived and. The immigrant ships transcribers guild istg is apparently a volunteer organization that is systematically transcribing passenger lists from immigrant ships and making them available on the internet.
Please look at the scan and make your own judgement. Cbp publishes a companion guide entitled carrier information guide may 2011. The national archives and records administration nara has immigration records for various ports for the years 18001959. Immigrant ships transcribers guild this website is staffed by volunteers who index passenger lists from various countries, including canada. An early project was the passenger and immigration lists index cited previously, which contains more than 4. Netherlands, published monthly, the united states immigration and. Find the correct fiche number of your passenger list by consulting the information booklet assisted immigration to victoria. The passenger listmanifest web site a search tool for the post 1891 time period for the port of new york.
In this source, all names in each list are indexed. Ships passenger lists are important immigration records for your italian genealogy research. Everyone, whether or not a member of discussion forums, is welcome to call in and ask questions or just listen live or listen to the. Ship ss empress of france, canadian pacific line 1949. Immigration and emigration class handout genealogy. The information listed above is not the complete record of the ship. The ships list various ship, passenger and maritime information. American sources for documenting immigrants rootsweb. Nov 21, 2017 ellis island has an online searchable database, created by the statue of libertyellis island foundation, of 22. Ship ss empress of france, canadian pacific line 1949 naval race card booklet. The first of these was the fortitude, a ship of 608 tons, which arrived in moreton bay on january 21, 1849, after a voyage lasting 128 days.
Irish emigration database records of irish immigrants in us. Click here for more information about these databases. An online catalog of high quality maritimerelated internet resources. Immigrant ships transcribers guild is independently owned. Registration is required but free, and you can view scanned images of actual passenger manifests. For boston, baltimore, new orleans, and philadelphia the database covers only the famine years. The cunard line passenger lists and emigrant ships from. This booklet is in good, but not perfect condition. Also included are ship photos and links to other sites of interest. Subject to special registration to notify uscis of change.
Below, choose how you want to read and explore discover canada. American ships, being lighter than most european ships, were at a disadvantage under the old 1819 law that allowed two passengers to every five tons of a ships weight, and in 1847 congress passed a law stipulating that each immigrant must have 14 sq. Records of the immigration and naturalization service ins, 18971957. This is a list of indexes of passenger lists also called immigration records or ship manifests for ships that sailed to the united states from 1820 to the 1940s and now into the 1950s, including microfilm some rolls have now been digitized, books, and online indexes and databases. The cunard line was one of the first british transatlantic companies to establish a network of passenger agents to deal with the conveyance of emigrants from the scandinavian countries. A site with cunard line ship descriptions is the cunards historical fleet search site. You can view the data by date, by name of the ship, or by passengers in. This pocket study guide contains the list of 100 civics questions and answers for the naturalization test as well as the english. Japanese immigration to hawaii represented one of the largest or most significant groups of immigrants to come to work on the sugar plantations in the last decades of the 19th, and first decades of the 20th centuries.
The rights and responsibilities of citizenship is used by newcomers to study for the citizenship test. Cleng peerson travels to america as an agent for hopeful emigrants. Uk and ireland, incoming passenger lists, 18781960 this database is an index to the board of trades passenger lists of ships arriving in the united kingdom and ireland from foreign ports outside of. Links to photos of ships are at the end of this list. Full text of a bibliography of ship passenger lists, 15381825. This makes searching a passenger list index for your ancestor a real challenge. For the port of new york, the database covers the years between 1846 and 1890. Website search technology courtesy of the new immigrant ships transcribers guild logo was designed by patricia macfarlane, june 2007. With the rapid growth and development of the physical sciences, beginning in the early 19th century, it was inevitable that hydrokinetics the study of fluids in motion, hydrostatics.
Louis, and berlin of the hamburgamerica line and north german lloyd. A stepby step handbook to for researching your swedish ancestors. Full text of a bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538. I dont have much information on it but here is what i do have. This timeline highlights some important milestones in norwegian immigration, with special focus on the norwegian ridge area. It was renamed the 1 ottowa 2 gul djemal 3 gulcemal email from ralph muraca 16 march 1998. The general agent in norway was located in christiania now oslo.
Search alphabetically by ship name to learn about the physical dimensions and capacity, builders, launches, shipping lines, shipping routes and schedules, name changes, wreck and salvage data, and other information for over 68 doukhobor immigrant ships. Buenos aires, argentina max desser, 158 anderson ave. Includes the following information extracted from national archives microfilm publication m237. During the naturalization interview, applicants will be asked up to 10 questions from the list of 100 questions in english. Immigrant ship transcribers guild grimshaw origins and. Ships passenger lists, palatines imported in the ship. The vast majority came from the prefectures of yamaguchi, hiroshima, fukuoka, kumamoto, and, after 1900, from okinawa. As of this time, more than 7,500 transcriptions of passenger lists from the colonial days up to the 1900s have been uploaded to that site. Some recentlyissued a numbers consist of an a followed by nine digits. Be aware that this database does not contain all of the names that are included in the passenger list collections. There are 100 civics questions on the naturalization test. Apr 21, 2020 take note of the ship name, year, book and page number. Hope community center offers detailed and concrete preparation for immigrants to be.
It includes a surnametosoundex conversion tool, and contains the indexes to passenger manifests that can be searched by. Maitland journey toaustralia, 1838 by bruce fairhall. Us immigration passenger arrival records genealogy. These records contain much more information than the earlier canadian passenger lists. Ship information includes country of origin, date of entry, and last port. They also give the nameaddress and the people who were left behind, with the relationship to the immigrant, they give the nameaddress and relationship of the person the immigrant was going to in the us. This database is compiled directly from the original ships passenger manifests. The illustrated london times aug 27, 1853 described the ship as built of iron, double riveted. Hapagndl ships in the transatlantic service 1937 gg. Immigration and ships passenger lists research guide. It also contains information about the history of canada, how our government works, symbols of canada and its regions. Immigration records, more popularly known as ship passenger arrival records, may provide evidence of a persons arrival in the united states, as well as foreign birthplace.
The old logo, which continues to be used in part on this website, was designed and contributed by pat walker and sheila tate. The ship logo, which is still used in part, was designed and contributed by pat walker and sheila tate. Having had some infectious disease on the way out, the ship wa places ind quarantine, and all the immigrants landed on moreton island for the deten tion period. Take note of the ship name, year, book and page number.