New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1925

What is in This Collection?

This collection consist of index & images of passenger and crew lists of ships arriving at the port of New York. The Collection includes two National Archive microfilm publications:
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1820-1897, M237

• Rolls 581 through 675 cover the years 1892 through 1897, Record Group 36, Records of the U.S. Customs Service
• NAID--6256867
• For the years 1820-1891 see New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891. Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels, Arriving at New York, NY, 1897-1957, T715
• Rolls 1 through 3595 covering the years 1897 through 1924 in, Record Group 85, Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
• Microfilm publication T715 includes the manifest records from the Carpathia for 1912. The manifest records for 1912 include the list of 706 passengers rescued from the Titanic on April 15. The NARA Prologue Article “They Said It Couldn’t Sink” provides record details of the Titanic losses and the investigation into the Titanic’s sinking. The article mentions other related record groups and collections that include information on the Titanic sinking and the aftermath

Passenger arrival lists, or customs manifests, date back to 1820. The first official emigration station for New York was Castle Garden, located at the tip of lower Manhattan. Congressional action in 1891 resulted in federal immigration officials recording the immigrants’ arrival. After January 1892, passengers arriving in New York debarked at Ellis Island, located east of Manhattan in the New York Harbor. From 1892 to 1924, almost all immigrants entered the United States through the port of New York. When passengers arrived at Ellis Island, they were asked a series of questions designed to determine whether they would be able to support themselves and did not have any health problems. The information was supplied by the immigrant or a traveling companion (usually a family member). Only 2% of immigrants were denied entry into the United States.

The passenger lists are usually two typed pages divided into columns and rows. When you select an image to view, sometimes the manifest includes more than one page, and when you use the "click to enlarge manifest" link, the image that appears is not always the first page. To view the other page, use the "previous" or "next" links. See also NARA Passenger Manifest Annotations

• R.M.S. Carpathia
• NAID 300348 List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival, R.M.S. CARPATHIA.
• NAID 300349 List of U. S. Citizens (For the Immigration Authorities), R.M.S. CARPATHIA

• Related Articles
• Marian L. Smith. The Creation and Destruction of Ellis Island Manifests: Part 1 Prologue 28 #3 (Fall 1996)
• Marian L. Smith. The Creation and Destruction of Ellis Island Manifests: Part 2 Prologue 28 #4 (Winter 1996)

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  Index to Passenger Lists

Inventory

For a list of all the titles included in this Historical Records publication see New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island) - Inventory