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shipping and immigration

Links to some of the best websites for shipping and immigration.

    New Zealand

Website Links Content More Information
Links to shipping lists
A good starting point
Over 1,000 passenger lists
Most of our Auckland lists and information is now at "Auckland Stuff"
Mostly Auckland information
Genealogy Research and Lists Relating to the Auckland Region
Nearly 4000 ships, 1835 to 1910
By Gavin Petrie, updated 17 January 2013
2434 Passenger Lists
With 942 Ships, 250 ship photographs
March 1848 - January 1851
An expanded and corrected version of Dr Hocken's lists
NZ Maritime Museum
Search for vessels, organisations, subjects and people, mentioned in a number of publications currently being indexed by the Museum.
19-20th Century NZ Newspapers
Search by Date, Region, or Title.
Limited database of passengers to NZ from 1841
NZSG members can view the NZSG Shipping Database in the Members Area. A more extensive database is available to members at the FRC either in person or by email to researchservice@genealogy.org.nz
118 items from FamilySearch
Many of these items are books and microfiche containing shipping information relating to NZ. Some are available at the NZSG library.
1855-1973, from FamilySearch
Filmed from lists at Archives New Zealand – some are indexed, the others can be browsed.
Scroll of known Seafarers who have lost their lives at sea whilst serving in New Zealand waters.
Stories of immigrant shipping
From the 1840s, thousands of British settlers sailed for months across the world to their new home.
1841-1850
Search the Nelson City Council Early Settlers’ Database to find information about your ancestors who arrived by sea to settle in the Nelson Region.
Search by Archway
Archive records of shipwrecks etc.
Search for shipboard diaries
Passenger Lists to NZ
Mainly (but not only) Wellington & Mid to Lower North Island.
Auckland area passenger arrivals
Taken from newspaper reports 1838 to 1889. Also passengers from 1909 to 1921 from Archives NZ lists.
Online aid for those seeking emigrant passenger lists.
Searchable database compiled from public submissions.
With Passenger Ship Links
Australia and New Zealand

    Other Countries

Country Website Links Content More Information
Australia
Convicts 1788-1968
Arrrivals, Departures, Passenger Lists
Australia
Perth, Western Australia
The Perth Dead Persons' Society is alive and well, tracing family history
Australia
1852 to 1923
Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British and foreign ports
USA
1855 - 1890
CastleGarden.org
USA
1892 - 1924
Ellis Island Database