Tag: Newspaper Passenger Lists

GenealogyBank Is the Only Source of This Irish Passenger List Information

By Thomas Jay Kemp on February 4, 2015

I am just amazed every time I see these Irish American passenger lists in GenealogyBank’s online newspapers and see that they tell me where these new arrivals had lived in Ireland, and where they were going to live in America. That information is NOT in any other passenger list source. How in the world... (Read More)

Trace Your Immigrant Ancestors with Newspaper Passenger Lists

By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 12, 2014

Be sure to check passenger lists that were routinely printed in newspapers—they have critical genealogical information about your immigrant ancestors that you need for your family history research. Look at this typical example, published in the Irish Nation newspaper in New York City. This passenger list reports on the Irish passengers who arrived in New York... (Read More)