International research tools

Familysearch

• Historical records (i.e. vital records, census, naturalization, etc.) https://www.familysearch.org/search

• Online records collection https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search

Obtaining the information about naturalization, social security number and vital records

• United States:

  • Naturalization Terms and Acronyms

  • https://www.germanroots.com/naturalization.html

  • https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/naturalization-records/

  • https://www.archives.gov/research/naturalization

  • https://www.foia.gov/#agency-search

  • https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/summer/women-and-naturalization-1.html

  • Where to write to Vital Records

  • https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2020/11/16/ordering-the-ss-5-2020-style/

Passengers Manifests and travel information

• Argentina:

  • CEMLA (Argentina) http://cemla.com/buscador/

• United States:

  • Compilation of various passenger manifests https://stevemorse.org/

  • Ellis Island https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/

  • Castle Garden http://www.castlegarden.org/

  • https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/U.S._Immigration_%E2%80%93_After_1820

  • Hamburg Passenger Lists 1881-1925

  • Just How Were Passenger Manifests Created? by Sallyann Sack-Pikus

  • Immigrant Records: More Than Just Ship Passenger Arrival Lists by Elizabeth Burnes

  • Manifest markings

    • https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Manifests/

    • https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2016/11/10thingsaboutpassengerlists.pdf

    • http://greatoaksgrow.blogspot.com/2010/05/guide-to-interpreting-passenger-list.html

  • Red Star Passenger Lists https://www.gjenvick.com/PassengerLists/BrowseByYear/index.html

• "Trains and Shelters and Ships" © Aubrey Newman Paper presented at a seminar under the auspices of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, April 2000. http://www.jewishroots.uct.ac.za/trains.htm

• https://www.gjenvick.com costs of emigration in the late 1800s but there is a lot of information at this site

• http://www.ballinstadt.de the Emigration Museum BallinStadt, Hamburg

• Immigration agencies in Poland (in Polish)

Polish newspapers in USA

• Library of Congress collection