Kathleen Lott <klott@tds.net> wrote: : : The Castle Garden site is great, thanks for the reference. Is there a : similar site for Boston and/or Canadian ports? I am especially interested : in the years 1840 - 1860. The Massachusetts State Archives has been working on a database of Boston passenger arrivals, but it is very spotty as volunteers only did names they were interested in so there are huge gaps. For example, if you enter the name "Ahern" you would be led to believe that no Aherns came through the port of Boston. I assure you that is not the case. See http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ArchivesSearch/PassengermanifestSearch.asp Canadian lists are rather scarce as they did not have the same requirements for documenting arrivals. See: http://www.inGeneas.com/free/main.html Canadian Immigration Index http://www.genealogie.gc.ca/06/0602_e.html Immigrants at Grosse-Île