Photo: immigrants coming up the board-walk from the barge, which has taken them off the steamship company's docks, and transported them to Ellis Island, 1902. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Using Passenger Lists to Find Ancestors

By Jessica Edwards on May 18, 2021

In this article, Jessica Edwards gives tips for finding and using passenger lists in your genealogy research, and provides many helpful links... (Read More)

Painting: "Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor," by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

How Many People Were on the Mayflower?

By Sarah Stevens on March 11, 2020

We’re revealing just how many people came over on the Mayflower. Read on to learn more!.. (Read More)

Painting: Liverpool Docks from Wapping, 1870, by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893). The original is at the Liverpool City Library, Liverpool, England.

You Know When He Arrived – How Can You Find the Date He Left Europe?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on September 12, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches old newspapers to discover when his ancestor William Kemp left England to come to America in the 19th century... (Read More)

For Irish American Heritage Month: Free Irish Passenger Lists eBook

By Thomas Jay Kemp on March 19, 2019

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about a free eBook providing an index and extract to the arrival records of over 2,000 Irish Americans... (Read More)

Photo: the schooner Shenandoah. Credit: Adaniels77; Wikimedia Commons.

This Is What My Ancestor, a Ship Captain, Saw in 1769!

By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 30, 2016

An article about discovering the maritime history and voyages of your ancestors by searching shipping records and passenger lists in old newspapers... (Read More)

Photo: the brig Niagara under full sail, off of South Bass Island, Ohio, on Lake Erie. Credit: Lance Woodworth; Wikimedia Commons.

Wait, Were There Two Ships Named ‘Hector’?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on March 10, 2016

An article providing search tips for when you encounter in your genealogy research two different ships that have the same name... (Read More)

I Have the Name of the Ship and the Year He Came Over – Now What?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on March 9, 2016

An article showing how you can use old newspapers to trace the movements of a sailing ship, in this case the ship Hector in 1834... (Read More)

Full List of Mayflower Passengers in Gov. Bradford’s Newly-Restored Journal

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 19, 2015

An article about the Northeast Document Conservation Center preserving the manuscript copy of Governor William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation.”.. (Read More)

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)

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