Texas, Passenger and Crew Lists Arriving at Various Ports - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
Passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Galveston, Texas. The publication corresponds with NARA publications M1357, M1358, M1359 and were filmed at the NARA facility in College Park, Maryland. The records are part of Record Group 85 Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.


 * Indexes to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston, Texas, 1896-1906 M1357
 * Index to Passenger of Vessels Arriving at Galveston, Texas, 1906-1951
 * Passenger Lists of Vessles Arriving at Galvestonn, Teaxs,1891-1957. M1359

What Can These Records Tell Me?
This collection contains passenger lists of U.S. citizens arriving at Galveston, Texas, 1896-1951. The records may contain: • 2 These records correspond with NARA publications M1357, M1358, M1359 and were filmed at the NARA facility in College Park, Maryland.

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Michael Tepper, American passenger arrival records: a guide to the records of immigrants arriving at American ports by sail and steam Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, c1993 FHL 973 W27am 1993
 * John Philip Colletta, They came in ships: a guide to finding your immigrant ancestor's arrival record. 3rd ed. Orem, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, c2002 FHL 973 W27c 2002
 * Michael J. Anuta,Ships of our ancestors Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1993, 2006 FHL 973 U3an 1993
 * Passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Galveston [and other nearby ports, Texas, 1896-1948; index, 1896-1951 : NARA RG85 M1357, M1358, and M1359]

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * Texas, Naturalization Records, 1906-1989
 * Texas, Passenger and Crew List of Airplanes, 1931-1964
 * Texas, Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Corpus Christi, Texas, and Vicinity, June 1948-January 1959
 * Texas, El Paso, Applications for Non-Resident Aliens Border Crossing Identification Cards, 1945-1952

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