For the next week, through September 5th, Ancestry.com is offering free access to their worldwide Immigration and Travel records. For those who do not have Ancestry.com membership, this means you can now find a tremendous number of records including passenger manifests, passport applications, naturalization records, etc.
Even if you have a US membership, this free week includes some records normally only available to those with the more expensive World membership, and includes records from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Mexico.
As an example of the use of these international records, if you find a record of someone who arrived in NY from Hamburg (a common point of departure from Europe in the 19th century), be sure to search for the corresponding record in Ancestry's Hamburg passenger records, which will show the original passenger manifest from when they left Hamburg, which may give additional information on the individual you are researching.
To access these free records, go to:
http://www.ancestry.com/immigration
Good luck finding records. If you find something really interesting, tell people about it in the comments below.
No luck with my husband's Jewish grandmother whom I had hoped to find, but I did find out why my 3-year-old grandmother and her family was not enumerated in the 1900 U.S. Census in Chicago. Visit From Maine to Kentucky to see why.
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