Passenger and immigration lists index

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This is a series of books which is under subscription by very large libraries for their own Genealogy sections.

I found a complete set (40 volumes, listed below) at the MTRL - Metro Toronto Reference Library - just north of Yonge and Bloor Streets, on the 4th Floor in the Genealogy section. They take up - literally - some 6 to 8 feet of shelf space. There must be millions of names listed in this set.

If you go looking for them at the MTRL, each volume (tome, really) is very large, and covers are coloured a sandy beige - about 14" tall by about 10" wide by no less than 1.5" thick - many are far thicker.

The dates are whatever the publishers could find, going back whatever number of centuries they happen to be. In other words, the 1982 book is NOT for passengers who travelled in 1982, but for all dates before that year. The 2010 book is NOT for passengers who travelled in 2010, but for all dates before 2010. And so on. All books for all years.

The names are listed alphabetically, with ages where provided and from:to info, of course. It is not difficult to find those who travelled together.

Tip: There are references in the entries (ships' names, locations of original lists, etc.) that may be found in the front and back inside covers.

At some point in time I will take a whole day to go downtown and do look-ups (it is a 2 hour trip each way), and will "broadcast" a month beforehand so everybody can send me their "wish list". But that is some time in the future - meanwhile, here is the info with which to search your own local libraries to find this set for yourself.

If you DO find the set nearby, please let me know so I can pass the info on to everyone else.

Best wishes,

Jim Lynch

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Passenger and immigration lists index
Publication information: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co.
ISSN: 0736-8267
Language: English
Format: Regular Print Book
Contributor: Gale Research Company.

929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1982
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1983
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1984
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1985
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1986
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1987
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1988
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1989
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1990
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1991
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1992
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1993
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1994
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1995
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1996
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1997
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1998 PT. 1
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1998 PT. 2
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1999 PT. 1
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 1999 PT. 2
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2000 PT. 1
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2000 PT. 2
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2001 PT. 1
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2001 PT. 2
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2002 PT. 1
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2002 PT. 2
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2003 PT. 1
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2003 PT. 2
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2004
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2005
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2006
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2007
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2008
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2009
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2010
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2011 PT. 1
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2011 PT. 2
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2012
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2013
929.373 P127 SUPPL. 2016

Passenger and Immigration Index
A Reference Guide to Published Lists of Passengers Who Arrived in America in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries

Arranged alphabetically, each entry includes name of immigrant, age, date and port of arrival or place of first mention in New World, names and ages of family members, coded source to consult for further information.
- Cross references connect immigrant ancestors to other family members.
- The "Bibliography of Sources Indexed" provides complete information about each of the cited sources.
- The "How to Locate Sources Indexed" section provides a sampling of institutions with major holdings of genealogical publications.

Main entries provide information such as name and age of immigrant; year and place of arrival, naturalization, or other record indicating that the person indexed was an immigrant; code indicating the source indexed and the page number in the source that contains the record; and the names of all listed family members together with their age and relationship to the main entry. - See more at:

A variety of these books is available on eBay (as I assume other sources), but it appears just one book / year at a time. Try searching with the keywords "Gale Passenger and Immigration Index CD".
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R4 ... x&_sacat=0

Also on AbeBooks.com
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchR ... tion+Index

Also on AddAll.com
http://www.addall.com/New/submitNew.cgi ... spCurr=USD

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LOCATIONS

Use this link to find one near you, and below are listed some which have been personally confirmed by other users...
http://www.worldcat.org/title/passenger-and-immigration-lists-index-cumulated-supplements/oclc/27204715?ht=edition&referer=di

A list of some 400 locations (below) has been very kindly provided by one of our users, with my thanks, and if you know of any sources not on this list please let me know so I can add it.

Metro Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, M4W 2G8, ON, Canada

MIssissauga Central Library, 301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. L5B 3Y3, ON, Canada

Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA, United Kingdom

Southampton Central Library, Civic Centre, Southampton SO14 7LW, United Kingdom

Stanford University Branner Earth Sciences Library, 397 Panama Mall, Palo Alto, CA, United States

Hawaii State Public Library System, 478 S King St, Honolulu, HI 96813, United States

New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116, United States

National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT 2600 Australia

State Library Victoria, Melbourne, AU-VI 3000 Australia

Northern Territory Library, Darwin Nt, 0801 Australia

San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA 92101 United States

Thousand Oaks Public Library, Grant R. Brimhall Library, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 United States

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States

University of California, Santa Barbara UCSB Library, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 United States

Beverly Hills Public Library, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 United States

California State Library - Sutro Library, San Francisco, CA 94132 United States

County of Los Angeles Public Library, County Library Headquarters, Downey, CA 90241 United States

Fresno County Public Library, Fresno, CA 93721 United States

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA 91108 United States

Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA 90071 United States

OC Public Libraries, OC Public Libraries Administration / Headquarters, Santa Ana, CA 92705 United States

Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, CA 91101 United States

Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 United States

Sonoma State University, Schulz Library, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 United States

Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305 United States

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Blue Mountain Community College Library, Pendleton, OR 97801 United States

Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Provo, UT 84602 United States

Idaho State Historical Society, Idaho State Archives, Boise, ID 83712 United States

Kenai Community Library, Kenai, AK 99611 United States

King County Library System, Service Center, Administrative Offices, Issaquah, WA 98027 United States

McAllen Public Library, Mcallen, TX 78504 United States

Mid-Columbia Libraries, Kennewick, WA 99336 United States

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SUNY Geneseo, Milne Library, Geneseo, NY 14454 United States

State University of New York, Binghamton University Libraries, Glenn G. Bartle Library, Binghamton, NY 13902 United States

The College of New Jersey Library, Ewing, NJ 08628 United States

University of Delaware Library, Hugh M Morris Library, Newark, DE 19717 United States

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library, Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States

City College, New York, NY 10031 United States

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 10027 United States

Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT 06830 United States

Hofstra University Library, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Hempstead, NY 11549 United States

Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Kingston Public Library, Kingston, ON K7L 1X8 Canada

Lehman College Library, Leonard Lief Library, Bronx, NY 10468 United States

Mid-York Library System, Utica, NY 13502 United States

National Gallery of Canada Library, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4 Canada

New York Public Library System, New York, NY 10018 United States

New York State Library, Albany, NY 12230 United States

New-York Historical Society Library, New York, NY 10024 United States

Patchogue-Medford Library, Patchogue, NY 11772 United States

Queens College, Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Flushing, NY 11367 United States

St. John's University Libraries, Queens, NY 11439 United States

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 United States

Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY 11713 United States

Yale University Library, New Haven, CT 06520 United States

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Montreal, QC H2L 5C4 Canada

Brandeis University Library, Waltham, MA 02454 United States

Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT 06106 United States

Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Framingham Public Library, Framingham, MA 01701 United States

Keene State College, Wallace E. Mason Library, Keene, NH 03435 United States

McGill University Library, Montreal, QC H3A 0C9 Canada

Minuteman Library Network, Natick, MA 01760 United States

University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Amherst, MA 01003 United States

University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington, VT 05405 United States

Boston College, Thomas P. O'Neill Library, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 United States

HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA 02139 United States

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 United States

New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 02116 United States

UNH Durham, Dimond Library, Durham, NH 03824 United States

University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries, Lowell, MA 01854 United States

Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6 Canada

Maine Maritime Academy, Nutting Memorial Library, Castine, ME 04420 United States

Maine State Library, Augusta, ME 04333 United States

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Canada

Mount Allison University Libraries and Archives, Ralph Pickard Bell Library, Sackville, NB E4L 1C6 Canada

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, 2595 BE Netherlands

The British Library, St. Pancras, London, NW1 2DB United Kingdom

[Frankie]

Hi bimjim

Does this collection include immigrants to Barbados and other Caribbean islands? Do records go back to the 1600's?

thx Frankie

[bimjim]

As the title suggests, it does go back to the 1600's ("Seventeenth Century").

And it has become all of the passenger lists that they can find between the Old World and the New World - South America and the Caribbean included, as well as between the Caribbean and the Americas.

This is NOT a USA-only resource, is NOT limited to Ellis Island.

I am not getting any help from the publishers as to where they can be found so, if you find a set in a library that is not listed above, please send me a note so I can add it to the list above for others to find and use.

HTH

Jim

[Frankie]

Will do. Thanks.
Frankie

[William]

Thank you. I had read about the lists you describe but I am afraid that there is no library near me that I could search. To look at all the volumes would take rather a long time and I don't have anyone to do it for me. I'm not too keen on paying for a 'researcher' that I do not know. I just wondered whether there was any other way to get the info about Dona Isabel Henriques. This may not even be the spelling used at the time so the task is an even more complex one.

[Twiglet]

In my researches, I have found the the Barbados archives a really useful resource, especially as many entries have been collated and made available in CD Rom form. Has anyone done the same for the passenger lists for 17th C ships? The volumes described above look very inviting, but there is no way I can afford to stay in London long enough to find my ancestors! Is there any hope of a digital version becoming available? How would you go about getting someone to do a professional search?

[bimjim]

The books described above are large and many, but they are each in alphabetical order from front cover to back cover - so no indexes. If you prefer to look at it this way, each entire book is one Index Nominum.

So, if you can get to one of the libraries listed, your searching time would be as little as opening each book and finding nothing under the name/s, or as long as you like to check a long list of names. There are 40+ books, so if you stayed by the shelf and did a quick look through each one for a single name - and found nothing - you might be looking at less than an hour total.

Remember, these are just lists of passengers. Period. There is no documentation, no wills, no family descriptions, no history, just that "BLOGGS, Joe, Male, aged 37 travelled in ShipA from PointB to PointC on Date", with his travelling companions listed.

Most libraries have photocopiers, so the biggest delay if you found something might be getting a payment card to use the copier. If you travelled there with someone else you could split the work and save a chunk of time, no matter what you needed to do.

The Ship references are in the covers, so each book you look at has all the info you need right there.

If you can get to a library with the set it may be worth your while. But I would not wring my hands if you cannot get to one... as I said, they are just passenger lists.

[Twiglet]

Thanks for your reply. The way you describe it is a lot simpler than I envisaged from other descriptions. I'll talk to the British Library, and see if we can fix a date!

You say its only a list of pax and ships- but I am up against "the wall"- who went where, when and where from. This might just be a stepping stone along the way.

thanks again

John

[bimjim]

I'd suggest you prepare a list of your relevant names in alphabetical order, with their dates and locations, and immediate family members - especially those who might have travelled with them.

Purchase a packet of several coloured stick-it squares - sticky notes - of paper from a stationary and take them with you, small ones just work as well as the larger ones (the leftovers you could use at home).

In the Library, start with the first year - 1980 is 3 volumes - and quickly match your names to the lists, marking the page locations with the sticky notes and move through all of the volumes to the last one. Stack the marked ones aside as you check them.

* If you put a second sticky note under the name of interest on each marked page, you don't have to look for the name again.

Now - if you found any names - you can arrange for copying and payment. At my Library we purchase a swipe card with credit on it for the copy machine, but the Library you go to may do things differently. Take the marked books to the copier (if there are many you could find a book trolley from somewhere) and just copy the pages (or sections of pages - the pages are quite large), removing the sticky notes as you go.

For speed, perhaps copy the inside covers (front and back) first, then the pages with the names, then you have all of the ship references and the names in order for when you get home and start sorting and studying them. If you have a portable stapler you could staple each book's copies together so they never get mixed up.

Return the stack of books to the shelf/shelves in order.

That's the way I would do it, anyway. Good luck with your search.

[Twiglet]

Many thanks for your kind advice. I shan't be doing this for some time as I live a long way from London and only visit once every couple of years, but I will be all kitted up and ready when I do go!

Thanks again

John

[pleslie]

Well Jim, this is amazing information. Thank you for it and thank you for your quick reply. I too live a couple of hours from Toronto and had no idea that there was such information there. I would consider going there but I need to think about it. I will look out for your message about when you plan to make the trip, unless I get there first.
Regards
William