Massachusetts Immigration records online may include passenger lists, passport records, border crossings, settlement records, court cases, 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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Massachusetts Immigration Records online at the federal level
US – United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images, at FS
US – United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index, at FS
US – United States, New England, passenger and crew lists, 1911-1954, at FS
US – Merchant Marine – United States, New England Seamen’s Identification Cards, 1918-1940, index & images, at FS
US – All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, results, at Anc$
US – U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960, at Anc$
US – U.S., Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944, at Anc$
US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, at MH$
US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, at Anc$
US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images, at FS
US – Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914, at MH
US – Russians Immigrating to the United States, at MH$
US – Czechs Immigrating to America, at MH$
US – Germans Immigrating to the United States, at MH$
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, at MH$
US – Italians Immigrating to the United States, at MH$
US – Transatlantic Migration, North America to Britain and Ireland, 1858 – 1870, at MH$
US – Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500 – 1900, at MH$
US – Atlantic and Gulf Ports, Passenger List Card Index, 1820-1870, at MH$
US – Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, at MH$
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, vol 1, at ISTG
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, vol 2, at ISTG
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, vol 3, at ISTG
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, vol 4, at ISTG
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, vol 5, at ISTG
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, vol 6, at ISTG
US – Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society card file I-96, 1882-1929, at FS
US – British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812, at Anc$
US – Planters of the Commonwealth: Emigrants to New England in Colonial Times, at FS
US – The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1623–1633, at FS
US – The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607–1776, and Emigrants in Bondage 1614–1775, at FS
US – Immigrants to New England, 1700–1775, at FS
Massachusetts Immigration Records online at the state level
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Mayflower Passengers 1620, at FMP$
Massachusetts – Mayflower Passengers, MSMD
Massachusetts – Seaman’s Protection Certificate Register Database, 1796-1871, at MSM
Massachusetts – The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640, at Anc$
Massachusetts – The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, at Anc$
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists, 1917-1943, index & images, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists Index, 1899-1940, index & images, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1891, index & images, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943, index & images, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Boston, Crew Lists, 1811-1921, index & images, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Index to Boston Passenger Lists, 1848-1891, index & images, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and Shipping Articles, 1797-1934, index & images, at FS
Massachusetts – Alphabetical manifest cards of alien and citizen arrivals at Fort Fairfield, Maine, ca., 1909-April 1953 : National Archives microfilm publication M2064, at FS
Massachusetts – Crew lists of vessels arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, 1917-1920 : NARA RG85 publication T938, at FS
Massachusetts – Crew lists of vessels arriving at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1918-1920 : NARA RG85 publication T941, at FS
Massachusetts – Crew lists of vessels arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1917-1943 : NARA RG85 publication T942, at FS
Massachusetts – Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society card file I-96, 1882-1929, at FS
Massachusetts – Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775, at FS
Massachusetts – An index of pioneers from Massachusetts to the west, especially the state of Michigan, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, Boston crew lists, 1917-1943, at FS
Massachusetts – Massachusetts, passenger lists, 1806-1910, at FS
Massachusetts – Passenger lists of vessels arriving at Gloucester, Massachusetts, October 1906 – March 1942 : NARA RG85 publication M1321, at FS
Massachusetts – Registers of passengers arriving in Massachusetts ports, 1848-1891, at FS
Massachusetts – Vital records not published – miscellaneous [1600-1938], at FS
Massachusetts – Colonial period – Exercises on the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims : held at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Tuesday, December 21, 1920, at FS
Massachusetts – Colonial period – The pre-Revolutionary Irish in Massachusetts, 1620-1775, at FS
Massachusetts – Colonial period – A record of the names of the passengers on the good ship Mayflower[1620] : [lists the passengers of the Mayflower], at FS
Massachusetts – Colonial period – Stephen Bachiler and the Plough Company of 1630, at FS
Massachusetts – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, seamen’s records: returns from U.S. Consuls relating to wages and effects of deceased seamen, 1872-1897, at FS
Massachusetts Immigration Records online at the county level
Essex County – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Essex County, Seamen’s Records : Crew Lists and Shipping Articles for Beverly and Salem, 1797-1934, at FS
Essex County – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and Shipping Articles : COLLECTION RECORD, 1797-1934, at FS
Massachusetts Immigration Records online at the city level
Barnstable – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Barnstable, Seamen’s Records : Crew Lists, 1839-1904, at FS
Belchertown (Massachusetts). Town Clerk Enfield – Emigration and Immigration – Notices of Application for Naturalization, 1887-1898 [Enfield, Massachusetts], at FS
Beverly – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Essex County, Ports of Salem and Beverly, Seamen’s Identification Cards, 1918, at FS
Boston – Jewish Records – Jewish Immigrant Aid Societies’ Records of Jewish Arrivals, 1913-1947
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, 1917-1920 : NARA RG85 Publication T938, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Jewish Immigrant Aid Societies’ Records of Jewish Arrivals, 1913-1947, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1917-1943, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1891-1943, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists Index : COLLECTION RECORD, 1899-1940, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Boston, Crew Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1811-1921, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Boston, Crew Lists, 1811-1921, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Index to Boston Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1848-1891, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, Crew Lists, 1917-1943, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, 1820-1891 ; with Index, 1848-1891 : NARA RG36 Publications M265 and M277, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Aug. 1, 1891-1943 ; Book Indexes to Boston Passenger Lists, 1899-1940 ; Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Jan. 1, 1902- Dec.31, 1920 : NARA RG85 Publications T521, T617, T790 and T843, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Passengers for New England, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – Registers of Passengers Arriving in Massachusetts Ports, 1848-1891, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration – United States, Eastern US Ports, Passenger Lists, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1917-1943, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1891-1943, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists Index : COLLECTION RECORD, 1899-1940, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Boston, Crew Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1811-1921, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Boston, Crew Lists, 1811-1921, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Index to Boston Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1848-1891, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston : COLLECTION RECORD, 1921-1949, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, 1921-1949, at FS
Boston – Emigration and Immigration- The Compass : Vol. 1 & 3-24, 29-37, at FS
Boston – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, Seamen’s Records, 1920-1940, at FS
Boston – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Seamen’s Records, 1917-1940, at FS
Edgartown – Merchant Marine – Certificates of Registry, Enrollment and License Issued at the Port of Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1815-1913, at FS
Edgartown – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Dukes County, Edgartown, Seamen’s Records, 1822-1866, at FS
Fall River – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Bristol County, Fall River, Seamen’s Records, 1837-1937, at FS
Gloucester – Emigration and Immigration – Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1918-1920 : NARA RG85 Publication T941, at FS
Gloucester – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Gloucester Passenger and Crew Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1906-1943, at FS
Gloucester – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Gloucester Passenger and Crew Lists, 1906-1943, at FS
Gloucester – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Gloucester, Massachusetts, October 1906 – March 1942 : NARA RG85 Publication M1321, at FS
Gloucester – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Gloucester Passenger and Crew Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1906-1943, at FS
Gloucester – Emigration and Immigration- Massachusetts, Gloucester Passenger and Crew Lists, 1906-1943, at FS
Gloucester – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Essex County, Gloucester, Seamen’s Records : Crew Lists, Marine Hospital Returns, Fishing Agreements and Shipping Articles, 1803-1943, at FS
Gloucester – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Essex County, Gloucester, Seamen’s Records, 1796-1909, at FS
Lawrence – Emigration and Immigration – A Study of the Immigration Problem in Lawrence, Massachusetts, at FS
Marblehead – Emigration and Immigration – Hyler-Heiler Families : of Switzerland to Germany and Voyage from Germany to Broad Bay, Maine 1742, at FS
Marblehead – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Essex County, Marblehead, Seamen’s Records, 1803-1918, at FS
Nantucket – Merchant Marine – Ship Log of the Laurel, 1813-1816, at FS
New Bedford – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Bristol County, New Bedford, Seamen’s Records, 1807-1939, at FS
New Bedford – Emigration and Immigration – Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1917-1943 : NARA RG85 Publication T942, at FS
New Bedford – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Bedford, 1902-1942 ; Index to Passengers, 1902-1954 : NARA RG85 Publications T522 and T944, at FS
Newburyport – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Essex County, Newburyport, Crew Lists, 1886, at FS
Plymouth – Emigration and Immigration – John Howland, a Mayflower Pilgrim, at FS
Salem – Emigration and Immigration – Massachusetts, Essex County, Ports of Salem and Beverly, Seamen’s Identification Cards, 1918, at FS
Salem – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Essex County, Salem, Seamen’s Records, 1789-1918, at FS
Vineyard Haven – Merchant Marine – Massachusetts, Dukes County, Vineyard Haven, Seamen’s Records, 1918, at FS
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