Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index - FamilySearch Historical Records

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Baltimore, Maryland,  United States
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Record Description
Record Type	Passenger Lists Index
Record Group	RG 36: Records of the U.S. Customs Service
Collection years	1820-1952
Microfilm Publication	M327. Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore (Federal Passenger Lists) 1820-1897. 171 rolls.
	T520. Index (Soundex) to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Md, 1897-1952. 43 rolls.
National Archives Identifier	17027507 4290505
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Maryland Emigration and Immigration
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What is in This Collection

The collection consists of a Soundex indexes to the passenger lists for the years 1820 to 1897 NARR microfilm publication M327 and 1897-1952 NARA Publication T520. The passengers lists from 1820 -1948 and related records will be located in Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists,1820-1948 on FamilySearch.

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What Can These Records Tell Me?

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• Given name
• Accompanied by
• Age
• Gender
• Marital status
• Occupation
• Nationality
• Last permanent address
• Destination
• Port of entry
• Name of vessel
• Date of entry

Collection Content

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  1876 Index Card

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• The approximate date and place of naturalization

Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1820-1897

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Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1897-1952

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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

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• Look for the Declaration of Intent soon after the immigrant arrived, and then look for the Naturalization Petition five years later, when the residency requirement would have been met. Look for naturalization records in federal courts and then in state, county, or city courts. An individual may have filed the first and final papers in different courts and sometimes in a different state if the person moved. Immigrants who were younger than 18 when they arrived did not need to file a Declaration of Intent as part of the process
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• If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality in an area search
• Try variant spellings of your ancestor’s name
• Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names

Research Helps

The following articles will help you in your research for your family in the state of Maryland.

• United States Emigration and Immigration
• Maryland Guided Research
• Maryland Research Tips and Strategies
• Step-by-Step Research

Other FamilySearch Collections

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FamilySearch Catalog

• Index (Soundex) to passenger lists of vessels arriving at Baltimore, 1897-1952 : NARA RG85 publication T520
• Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at Baltimore, (city passenger lists) 1833-1866 : NARA RG85 publication M326
• Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at Baltimore, 1820-1897 (Federal passengers lists) : NARA publication M327
• Maryland, Baltimore, passenger and crew lists of vessels and airplanes, 1954-1957
• Passenger lists of vessels arriving at Baltimore, 1820-1948 ; Quarterly abstracts of passenger lists of vessels arriving at Baltimore, 1820-1869 : NARA M255, T844 and M596
• United States, Eastern US ports, passenger lists
• Michael H. Tepper, general editor; transcribed by Elizabeth P. Bentley, Passenger arrivals at the port of Baltimore, 1820-1834 : from customs passenger lists Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982 FHL 975.26 W3p

FamilySearch Historical Records

• Baltimore Passenger Lists 1820-1948, NARA M255, M596 and T844
• Maryland, Baltimore, Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels and Airplanes, 1954-1957
• Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1897-1952

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