Friday, February 04, 2005

Ancestry.com - Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1907

Ancestry.com subscribers can search this database3

BOSTON PASSENGER LISTS, 1891-1943
(This update adds 1901-07; 750,000 names)

This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving
from foreign ports at the port of Boston, Massachusetts from 1891-
1943. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual
images of the passenger lists, copied from the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) microfilm, T843, rolls 1-454.

Information contained in the index includes given name, surname, age,
gender, ethnicity, nationality or last country of permanent
residence, destination, arrival date, port of arrival, port of
departure, ship name, and microfilm roll and page number. If a name
of a friend or relative whom the individual was going to join with,
or a place of nativity was provided, that information is included in
the index as well. Many of these items may be used to search the
index in the search template above.

Source Information: Ancestry.com. "Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943"
[database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.


Original data:
Boston, Massachusetts. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at
Boston, Massachusetts, 1891-1943.
Micropublication T843.
RG085. Rolls
# 1-454. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

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