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Maritime and Passenger Records
Ancestors On Board
UK outward passenger lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890 (the first time there was an official requirement to keep them) to1960. Covers passengers leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York
http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/
Ancestry Library Edition
Available free in Bedfordshire libraries. Click the link or the logo at the top of the 'Local and family history A-Z' page
http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/ webingres/ bedfordshire/ vlib/ 0.local_studies/ local_studies_a_z.htm
Ancestry.com
Many records of immigration to America plus Australian convict transportation records and images of ships
http://www.ancestry.com/
Ellis Island
You can search records of the 22 million immigrant passengers and ships crews who entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924.
http://www.ellisisland.org
Merseyside Maritime Museum Archives and Library
Includes useful information sheets, including details of passenger lists and tracing ancestors in the merchant navy
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ maritime/ archive/ listGuides.aspx
National Archives Research Guide - Passenger Lists
Guide to sources for inbound and outbound passengers
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ catalogue/ RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=106
National Archives: Research Guides
List including guides relating to records of people in the merchant navy and Royal Navy.
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ researchguidesindex.asp
National Maritime Museum
This section of the National Maritime Museum web site includes research guides relating to tracing people who were involved with either the Merchant Navy or the Royal Navy.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/ server/ show/ nav.005002006
National Maritime Museum - Maritime Memorials
You can search or browse a memorials database that contains records of over 4000 church, cemetery and public memorials to seafarers and victims of maritime disasters.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/ memorials/
General | Afro-Caribbean Family History | Anglican Family History | Armed Services | Asian Family History | Bedfordshire | Beginners' Guides | Births, Marriages and Deaths | Censuses | Countries and Regions | Divorce | Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Family History | Irish Family History | Italian Family History | Jewish Family History | Maritime and Passenger Records | Polish Family History | Scottish Family History | Welsh Family History | Wills
Page last updated: 29 September 2008
