Maryland Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

:• '''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.

::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 (FHL 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):

::- 1820-1834. ''Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834: From Customs Passenger Lists'', ed. by Bentley, Elizabeth P., and Michael H. Tepper. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982. (Family History Library Book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=290278&disp=Passenger+arrivals+at+the+port+of+Baltim%20%20&columns=*,0,0 975.26 W3p].) This also indexes the few city lists, cargo manifests, and state department transcripts for this period.

::- 1820-1874. United States. Bureau of Customs. ''A Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports (Excluding New York) 1820-1874''. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1960. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=67478&disp=A+supplemental+index+to+passenger+lists+++ 418161]-348.) This indexes the Baltimore City abstracts through June 1869 and the existing Annapolis and Havre de Grace lists (see the paragraph labelled "Other Ports").