Passengers Index for the port of Boston (1848-1891)
Date: 5 May 1999 18:52:33 GMT
From: "paul petersen" paul.petersen@worldnet.att.net
Newsgroups: alt.genealogy
To determine precisely when and on what vessel the immigrant
entered the United States through the port of Boston, do the following:
1. Check the index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at Boston
("State Lists"), 1848-1891, National Archives Microfilm Publication
M265. You can borrow a copy of this microfilm through
AGLL, any LDS (Mormon) Family History Center (Family History Library
microfilm #0205759), or Interlibrary Loan.
2. If you identify the immigrant in this index, to obtain a photocopy
of the passenger manifest itself, write to the
Archives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
giving the name of the vessel, and the date of the manifest. Note
that these passenger manifests are not Federal records (no Customs
passenger lists survive for the port of Boston for the period 1
April 1874 through 31 December 1882), have not been microfilmed,
and are thus not available through the usual channels (AGLL, LDS
Family History Centers, of Interlibrary Loan).
Passengers Index for the port of Boston (1906-1920)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:52:43 -800
From: "Michael Palmer" mpalmer@netcom.com
CC: emigration-ships@listserv.northwest.com
[snip]
Passenger lists of vessels arriving at Boston from 1 July 1906 through 31
December 1920 are indexed in National Archives Microfilm Publication T617
(11 rolls), so rather than search the passenger lists for all vessels
arriving at Boston from Liverpool from 1910 through 1918, check this
index for the individual(s) you are researching. Copies of these
microfilms--as well as of microfilm copies of the Boston passenger
arrival lists for 1820-1874 and 1883-1930--are available at the National
Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Regional Records Service
(Boston), Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center, 380 Trapelo Road, Waltham,
Massachusetts 02452-6399, e-mail: center@waltham.nara.gov,
http://www.nara.gov/regional/boston.html. Copies of these microfilms
*may* also be available at either the Massachusetts State Library or the
Massachusetts Historical Society.
Michael Palmer
