Chapter 3 of 4
The crossing produced the one record almost every American family has already seen: the passenger manifest. It is also the record most often misread. This chapter is about getting everything out of it, and about the arrival records families do not know to look for.
The passenger manifest is the record almost every American family has already seen, and the one most often misread. These articles cover the ports, the manifests themselves and the arrival records most searches never open.
Records in this chapter
Other ports
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Canadian Border Crossings
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Canada
Detention & return
Detained Aliens, Special Inquiry and Return Migration
Birds of passage and second crossings
Research guide
Why the village name on your ancestor’s papers is probably wrong
What we do with these records
Immigration & Passenger Records locates every crossing a person made, at every port, and reads each manifest in full. Ancestral Village Identification uses the same records to establish the parish.