Online Massachusetts Passenger Lists

Today, a look at online Massachusetts passenger lists and indexes. Massachusetts passenger records include manifests for both transatlantic and Canadian ships and passengers’ names.

But they can be tricky. For decades , the Massachusetts passenger lists recorded the departure port, but not the arrival port.

So be sure to download and then immediately name that passenger list file right away, using a consistent naming pattern.

Online Massachusetts Passenger Lists

The Massachusetts Archives

• Passenger Manifest Search, 1848-1891

  

  Search results from Massachusetts Archives’  Passenger Manifest Search database, showing abstracted information.

FamilySearch

• Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1891

• Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943

  

  SS Senator, caught in Baltic Sea ice, 15 Jun 1908.

• Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists Index, 1899-1940

• Massachusetts, Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, 1921-1949

Ancestry ($)

• Massachusetts, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963 Note: 1855-1856 and April 1874-1882 missing, but try the Massachusetts Archive index listed above.

• Boston Port Arrivals and Immigrants, 1715-1716, 1762-1769

Joe Beine’s Genesearch and German Roots sites

• Boston Passenger Lists Quick Guide

• Finding Passenger Arrival Records at the Port of Boston, Massachusetts 1820-1943

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild