Maryland Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

:• Customs passenger lists were kept beginning in January 1820. Most of the early lists were reportedly destroyed by a fire. The Family History Library has the following records in one collection on Family History Library films beginning at 417383.

::- '''Surviving U.S. Customs passenger lists from 1 January 1840 to 28 December 1891'''

::- Baltimore City lists for 4 September 1833 to 13 June 1866 (with some gaps). During these years, ship masters were required to submit copies of their passenger lists to the mayor of Baltimore. These city lists partially replace the missing original lists.  

::- A soundex card index to the U.S. Customs passenger lists indexes the federal lists for 1820 to 1897 (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=74109&disp=Index+to+passenger+lists+of+vessels+arri++ 417212]-382).

::- A separate soundex card index includes the individuals appearing in the city lists from 1833 to 1866 (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=291611&disp=Index+to+passenger+lists+of+vessels+arri++ 821565]-86). Both indexes have the same format and give all information found on the original lists except the name of the ship master and the port of embarkation.

:• Quarterly abstracts of Baltimore City passenger lists. Beginning in 1820, U.S. Customs collectors were required to send quarterly copies of the customs lists to the U.S. Secretary of State who published transcripts for Congress.

::These quarterly abstracts or copies give the quarter-year of an individual's arrival and sometimes the port of embarkation. Passengers' given names are usually shortened to the initial letter, but otherwise the information is the same as that found in the original lists. Use the abstracts when the original list is missing. The abstracts also have many gaps, and some years are missing. The Family History Library has the abstracts for the following years (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=65295&disp=Passenger+lists+of+vessels+arriving+at+B++ 1376177]-82):

::: • January 1820 to December 1845  

::: • July 1848 to September 1850  

::: • March 1857 to June 1869