InfoGuides: Genealogy: Immigration and Naturalization Records

Immigration Acts

U.S. Immigration Legislation
This website, a project of students at the University of Washington-Bothell, provides links to full text of key immigration legislation.

Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography, 1538-1900 by P. William Filby (Editor)
Call Number: G 929.3 P287f2
ISBN: 0810327406
Publication Date: 1988-02-01
They Came in Ships by John P. Colletta
Call Number: G 929.107 C698t3
ISBN: 091648937x
Publication Date: 2002-08-01
Mastering Immigration and Naturalization Records by W. Daniel Quillen
Call Number: G 929.1 Q6.5m2
ISBN: 9781593601676
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
American Passenger Arrival Records by Michael Tepper
Call Number: G 973.373 T314a
ISBN: 0806313803
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Ellis Island Research by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Call Number: G 929.1 C287e
ISBN: 9780806318844
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Immigration Research by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Call Number: G 929.1 C287im
ISBN: 9780806318905
Publication Date: 2011

Immigration Records at NARA
Naturalization Records at NARA
NATF Form 81
Use this form to order passenger arrival records from the National Archives.

The Naturalization Records page on the National Archives website gives some brief details about the naturalization process.

Galveston Immigration Database
Texas Seaport Museum has compiled the nation’s only computerized listing of immigrants to Galveston, Texas.
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The museum’s immigration exhibit features text and historic photographs illustrating Galveston’s role in immigration history and the major organized immigration movements of the 19th and 20th Centuries.

The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
Ellis Island served as an immigrant processing station from 1892 to 1954. Search its passenger lists and ships' records.

www.castlegarden.org
Comprehensive immigration records for Castle Garden, New York's main immigration point-of-entry from 1820 to 1892, are indexed and available for free searching at this website.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Contains transcriptions of ship manifests from various ships that may be of interest to genealogists.