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Newspaper Archive
 over 660 million obituary, marriage, birth and death announcements

Birth Records Search
includes name of mother, father,
place of birth, birth certificate access

Marriage Records Search
includes full bride and groom names,
bride and groom family members, marriage cert access

Death Records Search
includes location and date of death, obituary
records, cemetery listings, death certificate access

England & Wales
FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915
free access to the Civil Registration index
of Marriages for England and Wales

Ships Passenger Lists

International

Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934
This database contains passenger lists of ships that departed from the port of Hamburg, Germany from 1850-1934 (with a gap from 1915-1919 due to World War I)

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Over 3,800 ships passenger lists have been transcribed, passenger and crew names and ship name, departure point etc from all lists can be searched here.

USA

Bremen - New York Passenger Lists 1929-1939
Search the Bremen (Germany) Chamber of Commerce's database of passenger lists 1920-1939, of over 637,000 passengers.

Castle Garden Immigration and Passenger Lists 1830-1892
database of over 10 million US immigrants from 1830 through 1892 through Castle Garden, the year Ellis Island opened

Ellis Island Immigration & Passenger Records 1892-1924
Search over 22 million names of US immigrants who arrived as passengers and crew in the port of New York between 1892 and 1924.

Europeans to America Passenger Lists 1834 - 1897
over 500,000 records of immigrants who identified their country of origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine

 

Australia

Victoria - Index of Inward Passenger Lists 1852-1911 - Victoria
search the Public Record Office of Victoria's Index of Inward Passenger Lists 1852-1911

NSW - Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney & Newcastle, 1844-59
search the State Records of NSW database of Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney & Newcastle, 1844-59

New Zealand

New Zealand Passenger Lists
Search this database of New Zealand ships passenger lists, over 2,400 passenger lists from the 1800s and 1900s