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Ancestors on board
UK outbound passenger lists, 1890-1960, in the Board of Trade records held by The National Archives (ref BT27).

AUSNZ passenger lists

British presence in southern Patagonia

Canada: Immigrants to Canada before 1865

Canada: Passenger lists, 1865-1935

Castle Garden (America's first immigration centre, 1830-1892)

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.

Hudson's Bay Company Archives: biographical sheets

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 records
Records of all 4345 former prisoners of Inverary Jail, including transported prisoners.

Ireland-Australia transportation database - see Irish family history

Ozships: Australian shipping 1788-1968

Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

Scottish emigration database
Records of passengers who embarked at Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.

Scottish settlers in Argentina and Patagonia

Ships list: passenger lists

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Museums

Canada's Immigration Museum (Pier 21)

Migration museums

Scottish emigration museum