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Arnie Lang's Research Guide to Immigration and Ship's Passenger Lists

For those who are new to researching immigration records and ship's passenger lists, both on-line and off-line this is an excellent compilation of guides, how to’s, tips and links.

They include:

1. What you need to know about your ancestor to research immigration records and passenger lists.
2. A guide to the Soundex Coding System.
3. How to find your ancestor’s place of origin, arrival date, ship name, port of arrival and more if he/she arrived in the U.S. before 1820.
4. How to find your ancestor’s place of origin, arrival date, ship name, port of arrival and more if he/she arrived in the U.S. between 1820 and before 1891 (before 1897 if they arrived at the port of New York).
5. A guide, with a detailed illustrated example, for searching passenger lists in indexed years for arrivals at Boston, New York,
6. Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and minor Atlantic, Gulf and Great Lake ports.
7. How to search passenger lists in un-indexed years (e.g. 1847 - 1896 for New York).
8. How to use the Hamburg Departure Lists and other emigration information.
9. How to get the most from "Germans to America" and other    commercial indexes and books.
10. Castle Garden, a port of New York from 1855 to 1891.
11. A guide for ancestors who arrived in the U.S. after 1891 (after 1897 if they arrived at the Port of New York).
12. How to search passenger lists using a detailed illustrated     example.
13. A guide to naturalization records and how they may help in locating passenger list records.
14. How to find your ancestor's Declaration of Intention and Naturalization Petition.
15. How to find passport records.
16. Information about Ellis Island and the Wall of Honor
17. A guide to obtaining pictures and information of your ancestor's ship.
18. Bibliography and references

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