Emmigration and immigration records provide useful information about our ancestors' movement around the world. For every emmigration record there is often a matching immigration record. Often the details differ, so it worth looking for both.
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures |
| Title: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
| Link: | https://www.1820settlers.com/ |
| Description: | 1820 British Settlers to South Africa |
| Extra Info: | Information about the 1820 British settlers to South Africa, including transcribed letters, photographs and pictures of some of the settlers and a forum. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | 1820 Settler Correspondence - Cape of Good Hope |
| Link: | https://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/ |
| Description: | Letters from the Settlers of the Cape of Good Hope |
| Extra Info: | This correspondence concerns the immigration scheme for the Cape of Good Hope following the Napoleonic Wars. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
| Link: | https://www.bifhsgo.ca/ |
| Description: | British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
| Extra Info: | Click on projects. Includes lists of the 'home children' the children who travelled to Canada between 1869-1932. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) |
| Link: | http://www.castlegarden.org/ |
| Description: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) - (1820-1892) |
| Extra Info: | Immigration centre prior to Ellis Island. Search by name of the individual fro the 11 million immigrants, or by ship. |
| Classification: | Tithe Records, Valuation Books, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Religious Lists / Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | County Kerry Genealogy |
| Link: | http://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlker/ |
| Description: | County Kerry Genealogy |
| Extra Info: | Many online records relating to Kerry. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Ellis Island Foundation |
| Link: | https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/passenger |
| Description: | Ellis Island - Port of New York Passenger Records 1892-1954 |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Emigration Database |
| Link: | https://www.dunbrody.com/ |
| Description: | Emigration Database from the Dunbrody Famine Ship Website |
| Extra Info: | The Dunbrody famine ship carried many Irish passenger to America. Although this website includes a database of Irish emigration many of those on the list are English, Welsh and Scottish. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild |
| Link: | https://www.immigrantships.net/ |
| Description: | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild |
| Extra Info: | Includes records by ship, by departure point, by arrival point and also name search. Over 9000 ships passenger lists online. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Irish Emigration to New England |
| Link: | Irish Emigration to New England |
| Description: | Irish Emigration to New England through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849 |
| Extra Info: | Includes emigrant deaths. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Irish Famine Memorial |
| Link: | https://irishfaminememorial.org/ |
| Description: | Irish Famine Memorial |
| Extra Info: | Database and information about the famine orphan girl ships to Australia. Database includes such details as parents, employment, religion, home town, age etc. 1848-1851 |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Irish Immigrants to Virginia |
| Link: | http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/statewide/immigrant... |
| Description: | Irish Immigrants to Virginia |
| Extra Info: | Little Information other than name and date. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Irish Immigration & Travel Records |
| Link: | https://www.findmypast.ie/search-records/Travel-and-migration |
| Description: | Find My Past's Immigration & Travel |
| Extra Info: | Includes Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858-1870 |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
| Title: | Irish Records Extraction Database |
| Link: | Irish Records Extraction Database |
| Description: | Irish Records Extraction Database |
| Extra Info: | This collection is compiled from over 120 unique sources. The records spread from 1600-1874. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | LUCY and LUCEY Genealogy |
| Link: | http://www.ozlists.com/allluceys/ |
| Description: | LUCY and LUCEY Genealogy |
| Extra Info: | LUCY and LUCEY's arriving in Australia, convicts, and more. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
| Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20140407043350/http://m... |
| Description: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
| Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information and photographs still seem to be available. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships |
| Link: | http://www.norwayheritage.com/ |
| Description: | Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships |
| Extra Info: | Includes some searchable passenger lists. also information about the ships and lists documenting their individual voyages, as well as pictures of the ships. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Passenger Lists to New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigration |
| Link: | New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 |
| Description: | New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 |
| Extra Info: | Assisted immigrants had their passages subsidized or paid for by another person or agency. This collection is four different series of records. Information listed may include name, age, and native place. |
| Classification: | School / Educational Records / Alumni, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | PINCKNEY - The site for all UK PINCKNEYs |
| Link: | http://www.john-pinckney.co.uk/family/index.htm |
| Description: | PINCKNEY - The site for all UK PINCKNEYs and Variants |
| Extra Info: | Includes PINCKNEYs at Oxford and Cambridge and those who emigrated abroad. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Poor Rate, Other Records |
| Title: | Quaker Arrivals in Philadelphia |
| Link: | https://archive.org/details/quakerarrivalsa00myerg... |
| Description: | Quaker Arrivals in Philadelphia 1682-1750 |
| Extra Info: | Online book. Includes the certificates of removals for those arriving in Philadelphia. List the parish the relocated from in England, Ireland or Wales. Includes a names index |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | SMALL Family Genealogy |
| Link: | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~smalljd/ |
| Description: | SMALL Family Genealogy |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | South African Passenger Lists |
| Link: | http://www.eggsa.org/arrivals/lists.html |
| Description: | South African Passenger Lists |
| Extra Info: | The eGSSA branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa has embarked on a project to transcribe all the passenger lists in the South African Archives. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
| Link: | https://www.sa-passenger-list.za.net/ |
| Description: | South African Passenger Lists and Settlers |
| Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from London, Glasgow, Liverpool etc. to Natal (Durban) and Cape Town. Also includes details of Haidee settlers. |
| Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Journals / Diaries |
| Title: | The National Archives Online Collections Maps |
| Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
| Description: | The National Archives - Collection of Digitised Public Records |
| Extra Info: | Scroll down for Irish map collection. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | US Genweb Archives |
| Link: | http://www.usgwarchives.net/ |
| Description: | US Genweb Archives |
| Extra Info: | Some of the states have information about immigrants and naturalizations. Select State, the scrolldown to statewide files. |
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