A Selected Bibliography for Immigration and Naturalization Research

Immigration

General

  • Anuta, Michael J. Ships of Our Ancestors [VM 381 A58]
  • Barkai, Avraham Branching out: German-Jewish immigration to the United States, 1820-1914 [E 184 J5 B34]
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Research Outline: Tracing Immigrant Origins [CS 16 C511]
  • Colletta, John They Came in Ships: a Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record [CS 68 C65 1993]
  • Filby, P. William Passenger and Immigration Lists Index [CS 68 P36]
  • Jones, Maldwyn Allen American Immigration [JV 6450 J6]
  • Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals for the Years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the Years 1904 to 1926 at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore [HE 945 A2 D5]
  • Ptak, Diane Snyder A Passage in Time: the Ships that Brought Our Ancestors, 1620-1940 [HE 601 U5 P81]
  • Ptak, Diane Snyder A Compilation of American and Canadian Passenger/Emigration Registers [CS 47 U5 P81]
  • Ramirez, Bruno Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930 [E 184 C3 R36]
  • Roberts, Jayare Ellis Island and the Making of America [CS 42 G49 v. 23]
  • Tepper, Michael American Passenger Arrival Records [CS 49 T46 1993]
  • Tepper, Michael, ed. Immigrants to the Middle Colonies: a Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record [CS 68 I47]
  • United States National Archives and Records Service Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications [CS 47 U5 U54 I44]
  • Wood, Virginia Steele Immigrant Arrivals: a Guide to Published Sources [CS 68 U5 W66]

New York

  • Barris, Norwood Emigrants Aided in Chautauqua, New York, 1853-1876 [N.Y. CO. C395.1]
  • Bentley, Elizabeth Passenger Arrivals in the Port of New York, 1820-1832 [CS 68 P368]
  • Bracy, Isabel Immigrants in Madison County, New York, 1815-1860 [N.Y. CO. M265.32]
  • Ernst, Robert Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863 [N.Y.C. G 92]

North America

  • Bolton, Ethel Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775 [N.E. G 10]
  • Cressy, David Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century [New Eng. G 2.7]
  • New Orleans Passenger Lists [CS 68 N47 COMP. DISK]
  • Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1538-1940 [CS 68 F36 COMP. DISK]
  • The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot, 1831-1920 [E 184 I6 S43 COMP. DISK]
  • Shepard, Walter Lee Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684 [PENN. G 76]
  • Strassburger, Ralph Beaver Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 [E 184 G3 S771]
  • Thompson, Alexa Pier 21: an Illustrated History of Canada's Gateway [CANADA L H139.1]
  • Taylor, Maureen A. Rhode Island Passenger Lists: Port of Providence, 1798-1808, 1820-1872; Port of Bristol and Warren 1820-1871 [R.I. G 37]

Great Britain/Ireland

  • Coldham, Peter Wilson The Complete Book of Immigrants [E 184 B7 C59]
  • Coldham, Peter Wilson Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776 [E 184 B7 C6423]
  • Dobson, David The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783 [E 184 S3 D637]
  • Dobson, David Scottish Emigration to Colonial America [E 184 S3 D66]
  • Dobson, David Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828 [E 184 S3 D665]
  • Lawson, James The Emigrant Scot: an Inventory of Extant Ships Manifests (Passenger Lists) in Canadian Archives for Ships Travelling from Scotland to Canada before 1900 [CAN. G 33.8]
  • Mitchell, Brian Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839 [E 184 I6 I73]
  • Mitchell, Brian Irish Passenger Lists, 1803-1806 [E 184 I6 I71]
  • Mitchell, Brian Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871 [E 184 I6 I75]
  • Passenger and Immigration lists: Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871 [E 184 I6 I711 COMP. DISK]
  • Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846-1865 [E 184 I6 I72 COMP. DISK]
  • Passenger and Immigration Lists: New York, 1820-1850 [CS 68 P366 COMP. DISK]
  • Ramsey, Mary Lou McHaffie Covenanter Martyrs and Transportees: an Annotated Index of People, Places, and Events in Scotland and America [BX 9081 R47 COMP. DISK]
  • Smith, Frank Immigrants to America Appearing in English Records [E 184 B7 S64]
  • U.S. Ports Passenger Lists [CS 68 UN36 COMP. DISK]

Eastern Europe

  • Glazier, Ira Migration From the Russian Empire [E 184 R9 M53]
  • Davis-White, Jeanne Polish Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1880-1884 [Maryland L B217.965]
  • Moser, Geraldine Hamburg Passengers from the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire [E 184 P7 M67]

Southern Europe

  • Italians to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports [E 184 I8 I844]
  • Kiriazis, James W. Children of the Colossus: the Rhodian Greek Immigrants in the United States [Penn. L 1654]
  • Voultsus, Mary Greek Immigration Passengers, 1885-1910 [E 184 G7 V68]

Northern Europe

  • Burkett, Brigitte Emigrants from Baden and Wurttemberg in the Eighteenth Century [E 184 G3 B89]
  • Butler, Jon The Huguenots in America: a Refugee People in New World Society [E 184 9 B87]
  • Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S Ports [E 184 G3 G38]
  • Germans to America, 1850-1874 [E 184 G3 G38 COMP. DISK]
  • Hoffman, William John Settlers from the Netherlands in America before 1700 [LOCALITY SHELF 1 (N3822)]
  • Olsson, Nils William Swedish Passenger Arrivals in the United States, 1820-1850 [E 184 S8 O43 1995]
  • Schenck, Trudy The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index [Germany G 3 ]
  • Smith, Clifford Neal Reconstructed Passenger Lists for 1851 via Hamburg [CS 68 S65]
  • Yoder, Dan Rhineland Immigrants: Lists of German Settlers in Colonial America [E 184 G3 R44]
  • Zimmerman, Gary J. German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1871, with Places of Origin [E 184 G3 Z56 1988]

Naturalization

  • Abrams, Bruce Naturalizations in the Marine Court, New York City, 1838-1840 [N.Y. G 15.3 N38]
  • Abrams, Bruce Naturalizations in the Marine Court, New York City, 1842-1849 N.Y. [G 15.3 N38 Book 23]
  • Colonial Pennsylvania Naturalization Records [Penn. G 95.3 Comp. Disk]
  • Franklin, Frank George The Legislative History of Naturalization in the United States [JK 1814 F84]
  • Giuseppi, M.S. Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies [CS 68 G58]
  • Neagles, James C. Locating Your Immigrant Ancestor: a Guide to Naturalization Records [CS 49 N42]
  • Newman, John J. American Naturalization Processes and Procedures, 1790-1985 [JK 1814 N4]
  • Schaefer, Christina K. Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States [CS 49 S33]
  • Szucs, Loretta Dennis They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins [CS 47 S97]
  • Naturalizations Records in New York State [N.Y. G 12.8107]
  • New York Supreme Court Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-1924 [N.Y. L M314.57 N42 COMP. DISK]
  • Scott, Kenneth Early New York Naturalizations: Abstracts of Naturalization Records from Federal, State and Local Courts, 1792-1840 [N.Y. G 12.27]
  • Scott, Kenneth Naturalizations in the Marine Court, New York City, 1827-1835 [N.Y. G 12 v. 13]
  • Scott, Kenneth Naturalizations in the Marine Court, New York City, 1834-1840 [N.Y. G 12 v. 15]
  • Wolfe, Richard J. Early New York Naturalization Records in the Emmet Collection, with a List of Aliens Naturalized in New York, 1802-1814 [N.Y. G 12.32]
  • Naturalization Papers of Fulton and Bedford Counties, Pa. [Penn. L F959.9]
  • Naturalizations of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 1804-1840 [Penn. L B386.8]
  • Persons Naturalized in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1740-1773 [Penn. G 95.1]
  • Philadelphia Naturalization Records: an Index to Records of Aliens' Declarations of Intention and/or Oaths of Allegiance [CS 68 P47]

Compiled by Catherine M. Ellard, Assistant Librarian

Note. The references listed in the excellent bibliography above are no longer available at the NYG&B Library. They are, however, available at the New York Public Library where our collection is now housed.