Maryland Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

::- A soundex card index to the U.S. Customs passenger lists indexes the federal lists for 1820 to 1897 (FHL 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 (FHL 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.

::Use the abstracts when the original list is missing. 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. The abstracts also have many gaps, and some years are missing. The Family History Library has the abstracts for the following years :