Maryland Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

:Most ship records before 1820 contain little information about the passengers. Generally the list of passengers was a partial list and included names of the most important men. Women and children were often not listed. Since the capitans were not required to give their records to anyone, they kept the records themselves, destroyed the records or did not keep any records.  Most of the records that survive have been published.  Use the ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index'' to find these records (see below).

:Starting in 1820, the US federal government required capitans to turn in passenger lists.  The early lists usually named every passenger, but little else. 

:Later lists might give:  

::- Name  

::- Age  

::- Marital status  

::- Occupation  

::- Country of origin  

::- Last permanent residence (country and town)  

::- Name and address of relative in country from whence alien came  

::- Destination (state and town)  

::- Name and address of a sponsor (usually a relative)  

::- Place of birth (country and town)

::- Additional information