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Emigration
Click on the links below to search emigration and passenger records.
— Ancestors on boardUK outbound passenger lists, 1890-1960, in the Board of Trade records held by The National Archives (ref BT27).
— AUSNZ passenger lists
Helping family historians find the vessel that brought their ancestors to Australasia.
— British presence in southern Patagonia
Website dedicated to the history of British settlement in the far south of the Americas.
— Canada: Immigrants to Canada before 1865
— Canada: Passenger lists, 1865-1935
— Castle Garden (America's first immigration centre)
Free access to database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island immigration centre opened. Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.
— Convict transportation registers database (State Library of Queensland, Australia)
Database containing information about convicts transported to Australia from Britain, 1787-1867.
— Ellis Island
US immigration centre database of passengers and crew from 1892 to 1924.
— Grosse-Île Quarantine Station 1832 to 1937
Database of information on immigrants whose names appear in surviving records of the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station (1832-1937). (Libraries and Archives Canada).
— Immigrant servants database (for Americans tracing European ancestry)
— Inveraray Jail: prison recordsRecords of all 4345 former prisoners of Inverary Jail, including transported prisoners.
— Ozships: Australian shipping 1788-1968
Records from Australian shipping 1788-1968.
— Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies
Link to information from Edinburgh University about the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies.
— Scottish emigration database
Records of passengers who embarked at Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.
— Scottish settlers in Argentina and Patagonia
Museums
— Migration museums
The International Network of Migration Institutions includes museums and other institutions promoting the public understanding of migration.
A partnership between General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon© Crown copyright
