Genealogy: Special Topics

Passenger Lists

• Search the Statue of Liberty website for information on passenger ship immigrant arrivals at Ellis Island.  

• Another means to search Ellis Island and other ports of entry for passenger records is the Passenger List Search.

• Access records for immigrant passenger lists in New York City center between 1820 and 1891 using the FamilySearch website for New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891.

• Search immigrant records for Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924 with the FamilySearch website for New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924.

U.S. Census Search Helpers

• Use the Soundex Converter site to search surname variations.

• Access this site on Enumeration Districts, which are the areas by which the census was counted.  Find maps and more using this resource.  

Death Records

• The Death Indexes website features a directory of links to online death indexes, death certificates or notices, obituaries, and burial records.

• Ancestry provides this site on Social Security Death Index records.  

• The Find A Grave website provides a means of searching for cemetery records, graves by name, or graves by date or location.

Military Records

• The National Park Services provides a site on Civil War records.  Use this resource to search the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System for ancestors who may have participated.

• The Civil War Archive features the option to search regimental indexes, battle reports, and even soldiers' letters and diaries.

• The National Archives page for Military Records provides a helpful resource for genealogists on military records.

• Search Military Indexes for a directory of links to military records and indexes online.