A New Place to Look for Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Passenger List

Been looking for an immigrant ancestor to the United States? See if they’re among the nearly 3 million passengers to Boston or the nearly 850,000 passengers to Philadelphia recently added to FamilySearch.org.

The time period covered by these indexes includes an enormous wave of immigrants, mostly from southern and Eastern Europe. Italians, Portuguese, Russians (including Jews), Poles, Slavs and more entered the U.S. by the millions. Record content varies, but may include ports of departure and entry, age, birthplace, gender, marital status, occupation, citizenship or last country of resident, contact information for loved ones in the Old World or in the U.S., intended destination, and even a physical description. Images of the actual record can be viewed.

Also new at FamilySearch are nearly 1.5 million indexed records from the Mexico, Distrito Federal, Civil Registration, 1832-2005, collection and over half a million indexed records from the Hungary Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895, collection. See the table below for the full list of updates. Search these diverse collections and more than 3.5 billion other records for free at FamilySearch.org.

Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910	35,896	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.
Germany, Prussia, Brandenburg, Eberswalde, City Directories, 1890-1919	0	2,836	New browsable image collection.
Hungary Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895	572,243	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.
Mexico, Distrito Federal, Civil Registration, 1832-2005	1,452,770	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.
Netherlands, Limburg Province, Church Records, 1542-1910	0	131,396	New browsable image collection.
Russia, Samara Church Books, 1869-1917	88,149	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.
Ukraine, Kyiv Orthodox Consistory Church Book Duplicates, 1840-1845	129,110	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.
U.S., Florida, Marriages, 1830-1993	1,012,025	720,622	Added indexed records and images to an existing collection.
U.S., Iowa, State Census, 1905	1,445,414	0	New indexed record collection.
U.S., Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943	2,829,077	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.
U.S., Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1841-1920	755,766	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.
U.S., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1883-1945	874,690	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection.