ImmigrantShips.net

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) references immigration information with an emphasis on passenger lists, ships, and emigrant databases. It is a great and growing online collective effort of over ½-million names, extracted from more than 5,000 ships.  Over 500 Guild volunteers are dedicated to the task of making the search for our ancestors’ immigration easier, with the creation of digitized ships’ passenger lists.  

More recent passenger lists can provide a wealth of information about an immigrant ancestor including name, age, sex, birthplace, marital status, citizenship, purpose of travel, literacy (can read/ write), race, last residence, nearest relative and relationship, physical characteristics, destination, ticket status, payment of passage, money in-hand, year previously in US, friend/relative by name and where they live, departure date & place, arrival date & port, and more!  The site provides ancestral, immigration, naturalization, maritime, passenger, and ship resources, as well as, passenger route maps.