This was posted to another list and I thought it might be of interest. ---------------Original Message--------------- Taken from PRONI : Your Family Tree 11 The most obvious source for researchers who are descendents of emigrants from Northern Ireland are the emigration records deposited in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Unfortunately emigration is not, as a general rule, particularly well documented. Most passenger lists, for example, appear to have been deposited at the port of arrival rather than departure due to the fact that the authorities were more concerned with recording those entering a country than those leaving. Letters written from emigrants to their relatives in Ulster form the most substantial part of our emigration records. This sort of material can be found in many of the private collections deposited at PRONI. The easiest way to locate these records is to use the computerised Subject Index which is located in the Reception Room (a print-out is available on the shelves of the Public Search Room). Under the subject heading `Emigration`, researchers will find a brief reference number. Reearchers should also consult the Place Names Card-Index in the Public Search Room which contains numerous references to emigrant letters from settlers in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. Pasenger Lists are another valuable source of Emigration Records. Of particular interest to researchers are: T.711/1 List of passengers from Warrenpoint and Newry to Philadelphia and New York, 1791-2 MIC.333/1 Passenger Lists - Philadelphia 1800-82 MIC.333/2 Passenger Lists - Baltimore 1890-92 MIC.333/3 Passenger Lists - Boston 1871-91 MIC.333/4 Passenger Lists - New York 1826-27, 1840-42 and 1850-52 T.1011 Passengers from various origins arriving mainly in New York 1802-14 T.3262 Passenger Lists from Belfast, Cork, Limerick,Londonderry, Newry, Sligo,Warrenpoint to USA 1803-1806 T.521/1 Passenger Lists from Ireland to America 1804-06 (index available in Deputy Keeper`s Report 1929) D.2892/1/1-14 Pasenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents, Sailings from Londonderry to Philadelphia, Quebec, St John`s, New Brunswick 1847-71 (see also MIC.13) A number of lists of emigrants are also available on the shelves of the Public Search Room. These include: The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York 1846-51, (seven volumes, published in 1983) which contains data from the original ship manifest schedules, deposited in the National Immigrants Archives in the Blach Institute in Philadelphia Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871, contains lists of passengers sailing from Londonderry to America on ships of the J & J Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving in New York 1820-1821 Immigrants to New England 1700-1775, contains an alphabetical list compiled by Ethel Stanwood Bolton. List of Emigrants to America 1635-1776, contains list of passengers, including emigrants, who departed from English ports. Alex Hughes >from Ayrshire, Scotland Searching for Duncan,Bruce,Kilpatrick,Campbell,Fairley,Milne,McKechan, Jamphray,Strathern,Kelso,Smith & Auld in Scotland Searching for Hughes, Graham, McCutcheon, Donaghy, Irvine, Dorian, Kelley & Black in Ireland ----------End of Original Message----------