Passenger Lists America /USA Arrivals

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Pacific Coast & Hawaii Arrivals
Some sites are listed under several topics due to the
vast amount of information contained within the sites.

[Bound For California] [Argonauts of California]
[Our Lost Family in America]
[Our Lost Family in America Ships of the Past Part 2]
[Thiessen's Index] [New York Daily Times Passenger Lists From San Francisco]
[Christine's Hawaiian Ship List] [New York Daily Times Published Passenger Lists]
[LDS Emigration from Australia 1853-1868] [Russian Mennonite Immigrants From Harbin, China To The United States]
[Maritime Heritage Project]

  Bound for California Passenger Lists
Contains passenger lists for ships traveling to California between 1848 and 1873. The lists are transcribed from microfilm of the New York Daily Times, the New Orleans Time Picayune, and the Boston Daily Evening Transcript and are available at SFgenealogy.com.

New Orleans' Daily Picayune
1848 - 1849 - 1850 - 1851

Boston Daily Evening Transcript
1853 - 1854

New York Daily Times
New York City to California via Central America
1851 -1856 and 1865- 1873

Maritime News of the Day
Copies of New York Daily Times, Boston Daily Evening Transcript and the New Orleans' Times Picayune. Starts with the first issue of the Times, September 18, 1851. When possible, passengers will be linked to the ship they later boarded on the Pacific side of the Isthmus for the final leg of the journey to San Francisco.

Index to the Argonauts of California, by Libera Martina Spinazze
Compilation of 27,000 names of California Pioneers who entered the State prior to 1850.

Maritime Heritage Project
Extensive collection of passenger lists from ships arriving at the Port of San Francisco

   Argonauts of California
Pioneer Index, a list of 35,000 pioneers who had arrived in California by December 31 1849. Lists consist of Pioneer Associations and Passengers from Overland & by Sea.

   Our Lost Family in America:
Ships of the Past Part 1
DEPARTURES:
  1846-1851
  Bremen, Germany
  Hamburg, Germany
  Vera Cruz, Mexico
  Liverpool, England
  London, England
  Halifax, Nova Scotia
  Antwerp, Belgium
  Havre, France

   Our Lost Family in America Ships of the Past Part 2
DEPARTURES:
  1854-1886
  Bremen, Germany
  Liverpool, England
  Queenstown, Ireland
  Havre, France
  Antwerp, Belgium
  Glasgow, Scotland
  Unknown port

   Thiessen's Index
DEPARTURES
  1929 & 1930
  Hong Kong, China
  Kobe, Japan
  Kobe/Yokohama, Japan

   Christine's Hawaiian Ship List
DEPARTURES:
  1856-1860
  San Francisco, California
  Boston, Massachusetts
  Lahaina, Hawaii
  Honolulu, Hawaii
  Acapulco, Mexico
  Hong Kong, China
  Melbourne, Australia
  Bremen, Germany

   New York Daily Times Published Passenger Lists
New York City to California via Central America 1851 - 1856
DEPARTURES
  1851-1856
  New York, New York

   LDS Emigration from Australia 1853-1868
Site is searchable by surname or ship name.
  Surname
  First name
  Name of ship
  Year of emigration
The Australian Mormon Emigrant Companies

Name of vessel
  Rig
  Registry
  Tons
  Master
  No. of LDS passengers
  Port and date of departure
  Port & date of arrival
  No. of days of passage
  Company leader name

   Russian Mennonite Immigrants From Harbin, China To The United States
A list of the Mennonite refugees stranded in Harbin, China who were allowed entry into the United States in 1930. There are approximately 250 names included in the 15 ships listed as arriving in either San Francisco or Seattle in 1929/30. The "race" portion lists them as G (German), R (Russian), or H (Hebrew).

  Maritime Heritage Project
The Maritime Heritage Project is a California non-profit corporation established in 1998 dedicated to preserving that shipping history from the mid-1800s to the turn of the Century
The Project focus is on steamships plying the West Coast of the United States, their Captains and passengers

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