Official ELLIS ISLAND Search - Search Ellis Island Passenger Ship Records from 1892 to 1924, more than 22 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York.

Castle Garden America's First Immigration Center - SEARCH their database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. The simple search is free.

Italian Emigrant Databank Ship's Lists - New York, USA between 1880 -1891, Buenos Aires, Argentina between 1882 -1920 and Vitoria, Brazil between 1858 -1899. Try this link if the other doesn't work.  (PLEASE NOTE: for days at a time neither of their links will work...then it will pick up again...so if you can't get in today, try tomorrow.)

*EASY* Search Ellis Island & more by Steve Morse -  Sort through the maze with this very helpful and well thought out search by Stephen P. Morse and friends includes a way to search for missing Ship Lists, known as Manifests, on the Ellis Island Database with help tools for the US Census and other records too.

Ellis Island Wall of Honor - Search the American Immigrant Wall of Honor for your ancestors.

PORTS OF ENTRY and their Records - A Guide from The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

US Ports of Arrival and Their Available Passenger Lists 1820-1957 a guide for genealogy research - Included are Canadian & Mexican Border Crossing Records compiled by Joe Beine.

Cyndi's List of Ports of Entry - quick, general overview via links maintained by Cyndi Howells.

What Passenger Lists are ONLINE? - Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records & Indexes by Joe Beine.

Immigration and Ship Passenger Lists Research Guide - helpful tips of interest to all by Arnold H. Lang.

1538 to 1957 Immigration Records "Ship Passenger Arrival Records" at NARA -This is a list of exactly what Ship Passenger Arrival Records the US National Archives (NARA) has and does not have.  See other links on this page for more lists of Ports of Entry in the United States. This used to be a great link and a great site, now the entire NARA website is a maze, click & scroll for hours to try to find something, so good luck...

Email NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration - NARA is very helpful when you need to find Ships Passenger Arrival Records, especially for those ship arrivals in other ports than New York.  It is best if you have a good idea of the arrival date and other details. They will do a simple search for you if you provide them with enough information.  The cost is minimal if they find something and you want copies.  Some of the larger facilities have the full 20 volume set of "Italians to America" and will do a lookup. I found them to be very helpful and easy to deal with.  I recommend NARA over any other "service", as are not profit motivated although they require reasonable reimbursement for expenses like photocopies and mailing.

NARA Email Request Form 81 for Passenger Arrival - "Forms" is already on the subject line if you are using this link.  Ask for Form 81, the quantity desired and include your complete regular home mail address.  It should take less than a month to receive the form.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)  - About emigration & Immigration from PIE.

Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations - by Marian L. Smith Historian, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and other helpers on Jewish.gen

What do the Markings on the Manifest Mean?

GLOSSARY of Passenger List Annotations - do you want to know what all those signs and symbols on the Passenger Ship Manifests mean? Read this info by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. [Gov. site not working last check]

Extract Forms for Ships Manifests - can be used to record information extracted from passenger manifests 

Italian Immigrant Ships - Italians sailing from ports in Italy such as Naples, Genoa, Palermo, also LeHarve France and more by Vera Calistro.

They came By Ship - Transatlantic Passenger Lists of the Calitrani Immigrants by Mario Toglia

ITA-SICILY - Passenger lists from Sicilian and other Mediterranean Ports of embarkation; transcriptions and partial transcriptions.

New Orleans, Louisiana - Ships and Passenger Lists of the Orleans Parish Archives.

Rootsweb Selected Passenger List SEARCH -  Database contains 11059 records (5084 distinct surnames) with about 3000 records of ship passengers from Italy to the USA. Selected countries, states, and/or counties (as contributed)

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Passenger Lists Table of Contents - Easy to access no scripts version for webtv and people who use safe surfing settings (no scripts, no activeX etc) on their computer.

The Ships List - was established to assist those seeking information on the vessels which brought their ancestors to their new home. Read through this site if you are looking for information on U.S. Ports other that Ellis Island.

Bremen Chamber of Commerce 3017 passenger lists for the years 1920 - 1939 -  "some" Italian Surnames.

New York Arrivals, 1903, Passenger Ship Project  - Search their Database of 1903 Ship Passenger Arrivals to New York by the Dennis Baer project which will eventually cover every ship that has arrived in New York City in 1903...so keep checking or volunteer to help.

New York City to California - via Central America 1851-56 and 1865-73 from Passenger Lists published in the New York Daily Times.

Ruth Anne's Ship Lists - transcriptions by Ruth Anne Lucas many include passenger Lists and occupations.

Passenger Lists on the Internet - good index to various passenger ships lists on the Internet maintained by R. PROST.

Ships Passengers Lists on the Net - Distant Cousins Index to Immigrant Ship Passenger Lists which link to other sites, some are "pay-to-view" and some are FREE, therefore... READ BEFORE YOU CLICK

Ship Lists and Resources - Various Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources many with pictures.

Ships Guide / "The Compass":  - to assist you in your search for immigrant related information with special emphasis on passenger lists, ships, ship images and descriptions, emigrant and ethnic databases, and resources such as archives, libraries and museums both on-line and off-line.

Ship Search by name - search of many of the online passenger ship sites beautifully maintained by Illya James D'Addezio.

Pictures of Ellis Island Passenger Ships in One Step - from Stephen Morse, again, a great search engine.

The Immigration Experience - Historical pictures, plenty of interesting information and stories of the immigrant experience by Lou Alfano.

The Ships List - Ships Descriptions extracted from posts to TheShipsList and Mariners List.

Palmer List of Merchant Vessels -LOTS of pictures of Ships. [alphabetical listing at top of page]

Photographs / Immigration, Ellis Island  - New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920 from "The Golden Door Immigration Images" collection at the University of California Museum of Photography.

Pictures of Ellis Island - Liberty State Park, Jersey City - Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, Christopher Columbus Monument and more.

Passenger lists; Ships; Ship Museums - Information about Researching Passenger Lists, Information in Archives, Information about Ships, Individual Ships & Collections of Lists, Ship Disasters and more from "Genealogy Resources on the Internet."

Ship Pictures - KinShips' very beautiful pictures of the Passenger Vessels of Your Immigrant Ancestors