> >From Dick Eastman's Newsletter > > NARA Makes Some Passenger Arrival Records Available Online > > This week, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) > announced that it has made available for the first time online more > than 5.2 million records of some passengers who arrived during the > last half of the 19th century at the ports of Baltimore, Boston, New > Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The records can be accessed > through NARA's online Access to Archival Databases (AAD). > > The records were transcribed from original ship manifests into > electronic databases by Temple University's Center for Immigration > Research at The Balch Institute. The Center donated the digital > records to the National Archives. The records are known as Data > Files Relating to the Immigration of Germans to the United States, > 1850-1897; Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Italians to > the United States, 1855-1900; and Data Files Relating to the > Immigration of Russians to the United States, 1834-1897. This series > consists of records of 527,394 passengers who arrived at the United > States between 1834 through 1897 and identified their country of > origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania, > Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine. There are records of > passengers who were U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens planning to > continue their travels, returning to the U.S., or staying in the > U.S. There are records of passengers arriving at the following > ports: Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia; > the bulk of the records are for passengers arriving at the Port of > New York. Each of the passenger records may include name, age, town > of last residence, destination, and codes for passenger's sex, > occupation, literacy, country of origin, transit and/or travel > compartment, and the identification number for the ship manifest. > Information on each ship is in the manifest header file and includes > the ship manifest identification number, the name of the ship, the > code for its port of departure, and date of arrival. The ship > manifest identification number indicates the port of arrival. > > The new databases may be found at > > http://aad.archives.gov/aad/index.jsp