Hi, A good site for passenger ship lists for New York is the National Archives and Records Administration site (NARA). If you go directly to their search engine located here: (http://www.archives.gov/aad/), you can find the passenger lists, beginning in 1846 I believe, by (I found it a bit tricky finding the lists); 1) pressing the AAD search button and then, in the Subject line, scroll to Passenger Lists and submit. 2) click on, Records for passengers who arrived at the Port of New York during the Famine Years. 3) press the Select button next to Famine Irish Passenger Record Data file. That should get you to the actual search page. You can just type in a person's surname and it will give you a list of people with many columns of info. Some of the info in the columns are code numbers, which are very useful if you do further searches with them. Such as; in the Manifest Identification Number column, there will be a code number of the ship the person you were searching for arrived on. If you go back to the search page and only enter that number next to the Manifest Identification Number line (everything else blank) and submit it, it will give you all the people that came over on that ship. There's a lot to discover on this site if you play around with the code numbers, etc. Clare Whitney