Alabama Immigration records online may include passenger lists, passport information, crew lists, settlement records, court cases, emigration and migration records, and more.
These records often provide names, places and dates of birth, ethnic background, date and port/station of arrival, the name of the ship or rail, place of residence, where they were educated, parents’ names, names of children, and more.
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US Record collections with Alabama Immigration or Migration
US – Immigration – United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index, at FS
US – Immigration – United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index, at FS
US – Immigration – United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images, at FS
US – Immigration – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, at MH
US – Immigration – U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, at Anc$
US – Immigration – Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500 – 1900, at MH
US – Immigration – Atlantic and Gulf Ports, Passenger List Card Index, 1820-1870, at MH
US – Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, at MH
US – Immigration – Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914, at MH
US – Immigration – Germans Immigrating to the United States, at MH
US – Immigration – Italians Immigrating to the United States, at MH
US – Immigration – Russians Immigrating to the United States, at MH
US – Immigration – United States, Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874, at FS
US – Immigration – U.S., Border Crossings from Mexico to U.S., 1895-1964, at Anc$
Alabama – Immigration – Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky mixed relocation files, 1937-1954, at FS
Alabama – Immigration – Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at ports in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, 1890-1924, at FS
Alabama – Immigration – Mobile ship news, at FS
Alabama – Immigration – Atlantic Ports, Gulf Coasts, and Great Lakes Passenger Lists, Roll 8:1845-1849, at Anc$
Alabama – Immigration – Alabama, U.S., Arriving Passenger Lists, 1904-1962, at Anc$
Alabama – Immigration – Anglos and Anglo-Americans in Early Alabama, at FS
Alabama Emigration, Immigration, and Migration Records online by County
Baldwin County – Immigration – Baldwin County Immigration online, at GTHG
Colbert County – Migration, Internal – Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky Mixed Relocation Files : NARA, Record Group (RG) 142 (Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority), 1937-1954, at FS
Lauderdale County – Migration, Internal – Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky Mixed Relocation Files : NARA, Record Group (RG) 142 (Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority), 1937-1954, at FS
Mobile – Emigration and Immigration – August of 1704: the Pelican Girls Arrive at Mobile on the Ship “Pelican”
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