History and Genealogy Reference Unit
Passenger lists can provide clues to the areas where an immigrant ancestor lived. A standard source is William P. Filby's Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. Try a keyword search for passenger lists in our online catalog to see what other published lists we hold.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index by State Archives Collections Related to Naturalization
The following collections contain information about foreign-born persons. For information about accessing original materials, please see the guide to Accessing Archives and Secured Collections below. These collections are also held at our offsite location.
Record Group 010, Records of the Department of Education. This collection includes some passports and birth certificates ca. 1870-1930, which foreign-born persons submitted to the Department of Education when applying for work permits. These have been digitized by Ancestry.com as Connecticut, Passport and Birth Certificate, 1852-1928. See the link below.
Covers U.S. immigration history from the earliest colonial settlements to the present.
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