Ships & Naturalization
Ships & Naturalization
Italian History, Facts, Towns & Maps
Italian Cultural Links
Italian Genealogy Links
United States Genealogy Links & Resources
Ellis Island Wall of Honor - See if any of your family members have been placed on the Ellis Island Immigrant Wall of Honor. Maybe another family member unknown to you has placed one of your family names and you will be able to make a connection.
Ellis Island American Family Immigrant History Center - Search for your family member's arrival at Ellis Island and view the passenger lists online!
Search Ellis Island Database in ONE step - This site allows you to enter all sorts of information in one easy step and then be taken to a list of matches on the Ellis Island site. You can search just by one letter of the surname and the name of the ship if that is all the information you know. Lots of EASY search capabilities on this site. It eliminates having to go through all the steps on Ellis Island main site and saves time. One note of caution: Don't put too many specifics because if there is incorrect information anywhere within the Ellis Island Database, your search will not provide accurate results.
CastleGarden.org - This website allows you to search arrival records to Castle Garden, which was open before Ellis Island. You can search from 1820-1913. As far as I could tell, you can not see the actual ship manifest images as with Ellis Island, but it does say that a 'comparative data' section is under construction.
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - This is a website where volunteers have transcribed thousands of passenger lists from ships all over the world arriving to many different ports of call. Particularly helpful if your ancestor did not arrive through Ellis Island!. Lots of useful links as well.
Ships to New Orleans - This website has indexes of ships from Palermo to New Orleans for the years 1869-1897.
From New York City to California, Via Central America - These are lists taken from the New York Daily Times.
The Forgotten of Ellis Island - Lists of those who died in quarantine.
To New York from Foreign Ports 1789-1919 - This is an online searchable database of ships, not passenger lists. But it can help you narrow down which ship your ancestor might have been on.
Italian Immigrant Ships to Argentina and Brazil - this web site has 3 separate databases that catalog Italian immigrants to Brazil, Argentina, and the US. It is free, but you do have to register your name, email and a password. Great resource if your family went to these countries. It provides everything you need to find the passenger list of your ancestor.
Immigrants to Australia - this link is to the Family History page of the Australian National Archives. They will find documents for you, for a fee, OR you can click RecordSearch and do some free searching for yourself, but only 10% of their archives are searchable, including Passenger lists.
Search the Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals This directory has arrivals from 1890-1930 for New York and 1904-1926 for Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston.
Ship Descriptions - This site has a description and history of many immigrant ships so you can learn about the ship your ancestor traveled on.
First Mom's Immigrant Ship Passenger Lists - This site not only has a listing of Italian ships, it also has German, Irish, Scottish, French and more.
National Archives - Complete listing of available ship passenger lists from the National Archives.
A Website for the Study of Italian Migrations - this web site has some very interesting migration statistics, as well as articles and other items related to migrations to and from Italy.
Ancestor Quest Genealogy Passenger Lists
The Ships List
Cyndi's List-Ship Page
Olive Tree Genealogy Passenger Lists Page
Italian Immigrant Ships
D'Addezio.com passenger Lists
Helpful Dual Citizenship & Naturalization Links
Italian Consul General - This page has the information kit and the forms necessary for applying for dual citizenship. Read the Kit to find out if you are eligible for Dual Citizenship.
USCIS Genealogy Page - US Citizenship and Immigration Service page dedicated to genealogy, particularly information on requesting an index search for your ancestor's naturalization, immigration or alien registration papers.
Embassy of Italy - This is a listing of all the Italian consulates in the United States. You can go to these offices to apply for Dual Citizenship.
Census Bureau Search - This link takes you to the Census Bureau page with information on requesting a copy of the US Census. This may be necessary for some people applying for dual citizenship if no naturalization documents are available for their ancestor.
Apostille Info - This page has a listing of all the places where you can get the Apostille for your US based documents. You can also go directly to the US Dept of State. Additional information about where to have the Apostille done.
Italian Dual Citizenship FAQ - That's self explanatory!
National Archives - Where to find Naturalization Records-this page is great. It directs you to the appropriate place based on whether your ancestor was naturalized before or after 1906. It also has great links to articles such as Women and Naturalization, and also to some indexes of naturalization records.
Brooklyn Naturalization Index - This website is run by the Jewish GenealogicalSociety and has all sorts of helpful information. It allows you to search the Naturalization Index for Kings County for the years 1907-1924. If you go back to the home page, there are also searches for World War I drafts among other things.
Naturalization indexes for numerous NY counties - Great searchable indexes! Very useful web site.
A Dual Citizenship Story - Read the story of John Giacchino and the process of his quest for Dual Citizenship.
Italian Dual Citizenship Message Board - Great message boards with tons of information.
