Ship Passenger Lists - 1870s through the 1950s - Genealogy Records

The GG Archives is a Great Resource for Ship Passenger Lists - USA, Canada, Australia, and Other World Ports, from the 1870s - 1960s.

Early passenger lists were handwritten, but once printing presses became commonplace on many steamships, the ship manifests became a souvenir of the voyage. The covers of many of the older lists contained superb graphics and are highly prized by collectors.

The GG Archives has an extensive collection of these passenger records in our Maritime Collection that are perfect for your genealogy and family history records. Our most extensive holdings of ship passenger arrival records are for the Cunard Line / Cunard White Star Line.

The lists of passengers vary considerably between steamship lines in terms of information provided on each passenger. Additionally, on many voyages, each class received a separate passenger list. In contrast, others combined multiple classes into one or two lists for the same voyage. Newspaper reporters of the era were usually on hand to review passenger arrivals for VIPs and other noteworthy passengers.

Our extensive collection of souvenir passenger lists cover the late 1870s through the early 1960s with the bulk between 1900 and 1939. Browse these collections by steamship line, ports of call, year of voyage, geographic region, or by ship. Significant Ports of Call for our collection of passenger lists include Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bremen, Cherbourg, Hamburg, Liverpool, New York (Ellis Island), and Southampton.

Browse Our Passenger Lists

Passenger Lists by Steamship Line

Passenger Lists Organized by Steamship Line. Significant collections include the Canadian Pacific, Cunard Line, French Line, Hamburg-America, Holland-America, North German Lloyd, United States Lines, and the White Star Line. Our collection features 28 steamship lines and many small collections with other steamship lines.

Passenger Lists by Ship

The option to browse our Passenger List collection by the name of the ship will assist researchers to focus their search on a specific vessel without requiring other information such as steamship line or year/date of a voyage to locate the list of passengers.

Passenger Lists by Port of Call

Organized by Port of Call, the listings for Digitized Passenger Lists of the GG Archives typically include the date, vessel, route, and class for voyages that originated from or called upon a port listed.

Passenger Lists by Year

Organized by Year of Voyage, the listings for Passenger Lists of the GG Archives typically include the date, vessel, route, and class for voyages that originated from or called upon a port listed.

Passenger Lists by Region

Organized by Region (Australian, Canadian, French, German, Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, and South African), the listings typically include the date, vessel, route, and class for voyages that originated from or called upon a port listed.

Frequently Asked Questions About Passenger Lists

Passenger Lists FAQ's

Passenger Lists, Ships List, Passenger Manifests all seem to mean the same thing, but what are the differences, and how can you utilize these documents most effectively? The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives provides several topical articles covering passenger lists.

Browse Passenger Lists by Steamship Line

Passenger Lists Organized by Steamship Line. Significant collections include the Canadian Pacific, Cunard Line, French Line, Hamburg-America, Holland-America, North German Lloyd, United States Lines, and the White Star Line. Our collection features 28 steamship lines and many small collections with other steamship lines.

• Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers Passenger Lists 1891-1913
• American Export Lines Passenger Lists 1932-1954
• American Line Passenger Lists 1893-1924
• American Merchant Lines Passenger Lists 1928-1936
• Anchor Steamship Line Passenger Lists 1879-1938
• Atlantic Transport Line Passenger Lists 1899-1931
• Baltimore Mail Line Passenger Lists 1932-1938
• Canadian Pacific Line Passenger Lists 1908-1953
• Cunard Line Passenger Lists 1881-1919
• Cunard Line Passenger Lists 1920-1960
• Cunard White Star Line Passenger Lists 1934-1949
• Dominion Line Passenger Lists 1898-1909
• Fabre Line Passenger Lists 1913-1930
• CGT French Line Passenger Lists 1887-1939
• Hamburg America Line Passenger Lists 1881-1939
• Holland-America Line Passenger Lists 1899-1954
• Inman Line Passenger Lists 1877-1892
• Italian Steamship Lines Passenger Lists 1914-1951
• Leyland Line Passenger Lists 1901-1922
• North German Lloyd Passenger Lists 1881-1938
• Norwegian-America Line (NAL) Passenger Lists 1915-1954
• Red Star Line Passenger Lists 1892-1938
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (R.M.S.P.) Passenger Lists 1921-1926
• Scandinavian American Line Passenger Lists 1905-1931
• Swedish American Line Passenger Lists 1932-1953
• Union-Castle Line Passenger Lists 1911-1955
• United American Lines (Harriman Line) Passenger Lists 1922-1925
• United States Lines Passenger Lists 1922-1951
• White Star Line Passenger Lists 1889-1939
• Other Passenger Lists 1883-1954

Other (Miscellaneous) (Aberdeen Line, Anchor-Donaldson Line, American Mail Line, Donaldson-Atlantic Line, Donaldson Line, Furness-Bermuda Line, Grace Line, Home Lines, Inman Line, KNSM, NFDS (Nordenfjeldske), Orient Line, PSNC, Royal Mail Lines, State Line, White Star-Dominion Line, and the Yeoward Line.)