by Lisa Kindrick, Genealogy Librarian, the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County
If you are looking for information about immigrant ancestors, a key source for your search will be the PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS INDEX. These 45 volumes identify over five million names of people traveling to the New World between the late 1500s to mid-1900s, departing from more than 100 ports throughout the world, and arriving at more than 200 ports in North and South America.
The Genealogy Center recently received the 2024 supplement which assembles an additional 103,000 immigrant names, plus more than 1,000 family members who traveled with these immigrants to the Americas between 1607 and 1950.
These newly-profiled persons were drawn from a wide variety of more than 120 sources of genealogical and immigration information, including passenger lists, historical publications, naturalization records, government documents, scholarly journals, ship manifests and other historical sources.
This just may be the key to finding your elusive immigrant ancestor!
