by Lisa Kindrick, Librarian, Genealogy Center of the Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County
Still searching for those elusive ancestors immigrating to the United States or Canada between the 1500s and 1900s?
One of the most useful tools for finding their arrival into the United States is the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index . When new supplements to this massive series of books arrive, most recently on an annual basis, you’ll want to check the passenger names listed. Every supplement indexes names from a different set of passenger and immigration lists.
Some years the supplement focuses on lists for a particular country, but the 2022 supplement includes lists from more than 90 countries around the world, departing from more than 60 ports in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the South Pacific, and arriving to more than 40 ports in North and South America between 1607 and 1972.
A section at the beginning of the supplement lists the sources that have been indexed in that particular book. Librarian Sally Berg and I go through and note in the book the call number for the source at the Genealogy Center. If we do not have the indexed source you need, then we will do our best to obtain a copy for you.
The 2022 supplement has assembled over 98,000 immigrant names. Perhaps your ancestor is one of them!
