本收藏收录了 1846 年至 1851 年间抵达纽约港的 604,596 名乘客及其所乘坐的船只。记录包含乘客数据，可能包括姓名、年龄、最后居住城镇、目的地、乘客抵达日期，以及乘客性别、职业、识字情况、原籍国、过境状态、旅行舱位、乘客登船港口和船舶舱单识别码。<br><br>Approximately 70 percent of the passenger records list Ireland as the native country. The other 32 countries include Canada, Brazil, Saint Croix, Russia, Morocco, the United States and countries throughout Europe.<br><br>These records include passengers aboard ships with both Irish and non-Irish ports of embarkation for emigration to America. The series consists of four electronic files. The primary file is the Famine Irish Passenger Record File (FIPAS) that includes passenger lists with the personal names involved in this wave of immigration. Three additional files supplement it and serve as electronic code files. They are the Famine Irish Manifest Header File, the Famine Irish Port Code List and the Famine Irish Country Code List.<br><br><b>Historical context:</b> The Center for Immigration Research (CIR) at the Balch Institute created this series to promote access to information about immigrants from Ireland to the United States during the era of the Irish Potato Famine, 1846-1851. It was extracted from ship passenger lists in the records of the U.S. Customs Service (NARA Record Group 36).<br><br><b>Next steps:</b> Make sure to check with the Passenger List for the ship. People with similar surnames could have traveled together as families, and these could lead to naturalization records for New York, New Jersey, or whatever city the immigrant settled in.
