David asked about passenger lists from Ireland during the Famine years: >Hello All, > >I have traced one Irish line back a relative born in Bern >Ireland in 1833, he boarded the Julia-Heyn in 1850 for NYC. What are the >chances, or how would I go about, locating either birth records, census >records, or a more detailed ship record for the Julia-Heyn? > >Thank you. > >Dave Case, David, As you probably know there is an index of most of the immigrants entering the country at the National Archives, but there is no National Archives index for immigrants entering New York during the latter third of the 19th century. But Dr. Ira Glazier of Temple University has published a compilation of Irish Immigrant records from 1846 to 1851. It should be available at major academic libraries. He is also completing a study of Irish immigrants from the 1870's to the 1880's. He has also published studies on immigrants from Germany and Italy. There are plans to make some of his research available in the future on the National Archives site, but those plans are still pending. Here is the citation for the records from 1846 to 1851: TITLE The Famine immigrants : lists of Irish immigrants arriving at the port of New York, 1846-1851 / Ira A. Glazier, editor ; Michael Tepper, associate editor. PUB/DATE Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983-<1984 >. DESCRIPT v. <1,2,3 > ; 24 cm. CONTENTS v. 1. January 1846-June 1847 -- v.2. July 1847-June 1848 -- v. 3. July 1848-March 1849 --v. 4. April 1849-September 1849. SUBJECT Irish Americans--Genealogy. SUBJECT Registers of births, etc.--United States. SUBJECT Ships--Passenger lists. ADD AUTH Glazier, Ira A. ADD AUTH Tepper, Michael. LOCAL HGS Balch SP PHILA Gen Ref E184.I6 F25 1983 Our local source is the Balch Institute for Ethnic studies which has a fine collection on the Irish in America. Their web site always has something of interest : http://www.libertynet.org/~balch/index.html For more information, call The Balch Institute at (215) 925-8090. or e-mail to BALCHLIB@HSLC.ORG Good luck in your research Dennis Weeks Chairman, Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts