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Pennsylvania 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 Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index, at FS

US – All U.S., Border Crossings from Mexico to U.S., 1895-1964, at Anc$

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 – US Immigration and Travel Records, 1836-1914, at FMP$

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 – Germanic Immigration Records: 1850 – 1897, at FMP$

Pennsylvania Immigration Records online at the state level

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia : chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727-1776 : with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712, index, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – A list of eighteenth-century emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen to the American colonies, 1734-1752, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – A list of German immigrants to the American colonies from Zweibruecken in the Palatinate, 1750-1771, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Apart from the world : an account of the origins and destinies of various Swiss Mennonites who fled from their homelands in remote parts of the Cantons Zürich, Aargau and Bern as well as Alsace, the Kurpf[al]z, and later along the edges of the American frontier in Pennsylvania and Virginia; namely the families Bachman, Bär, Bruppacher, Hauser, Hiestand, Leaman, Ringger, Schmidt and Strickler, 1458-1865, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Application for passes, 1775-1790, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Case files of Chinese immigrants from district no. 4 (Philadelphia) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Emigrants from the Palatinate to the American colonies in the 18th century, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Emigrants from Wuerttemberg; the Adolf Gerber lists, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Falckner’s Curieuse Nachricht von Pennsylvania : the book that stimulated the great German emigration to Pennsylvania in the early years of the XVIII century. A reprint of the edition of 1702, amplified with the text of the original manuscript in the Halle archives, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Historic background and annals of the Swiss and German pioneer settlers of southeastern Pennsylvania, and of their remote ancestors, from the middle of the Dark Ages, down to the time of the Revolutionary War : an authentic history from original sources … with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other nonresistant sects, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Impost books of the Collector of Customs at Philadelphia, United States. Department of the Treasury, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Index to the names of 30,000 immigrants – German, Swiss, Dutch and French – into Pennsylvania, 1727-1776, index, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Les enfants de la Princess Augusta : migrations du Ban de la Roche vers l’Amérique ; 18, 19 et 20ème siècles : descendance connue de Jean-Georges Wiedemann, maître-marechal ferrant à Rothau (67), des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Les voyageurs de la «Princess Augusta» : migrations du Ban de la Roche vers l’Amérique ; 18éme siècle, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Names of foreigners who took the oath of allegiance to the province and state of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with foreign arrivals, 1786-1808, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Notes of (non-Quakers) early settlers of Pennsylvania, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Notes on English Quakers in Pennsylvania, late 17th & early 18th centuries, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Notes on immigrants to Pennsylvania, 1681-1737, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Notes on Swedes [Swedish] immigrants, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Notes on Welsh immigrants, late 17th & early 18th centuries, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania German pioneers : a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania German pioneers from the county of Wertheim, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia case files of Chinese immigrants, 1900-1923, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvanians in Ohio, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Plant every idle acre : a history of Germania, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Records of the Russian Consular Offices in the United States : NARA publication M1486, 1862-1928, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Records of the special boards of inquiry, district 4, Philadelphia, 1893-1909, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Redemptioners and indentured servants in the colony and commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – The first Swiss settlements in America, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – The founding of the German churches of Pennsylvania, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – The Horn papers; early westward movement on the Monongahela and upper Ohio, 1765-1795, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – The trail of the black walnut, at FS

Pennsylvania – Passenger & Crew Lists – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Seamen’s Proofs of Citizenship, 1791-1861, index & images, at FS

Pennsylvania – Passenger & Crew Lists – Pennsylvania, Crew Lists arriving at Erie, 1952-1957, index & images, at FS

Pennsylvania – Passenger & Crew Lists – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger List Index Cards, 1883-1948, index & images, at FS

Pennsylvania – Passenger & Crew Lists – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists Index, 1800-1906, index & images, at FS

Pennsylvania – Passenger & Crew Lists – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1882, index & images, at FS

Pennsylvania – Passenger & Crew Lists – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1883-1945, index & images, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Servants Database, at PG

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals, Vol. 1; index only, at IS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals, 1727-1855, Vol. 2, at IS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals, 1684-1907, Vol. 3, at IS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals, 1727-1911, Vol. 4, at IS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals, 1764-1840, Vol. 5, at IS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals, 1753-1860, Vol. 6, at IS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals, 1754-1761, Vol. 6, at IS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Landing Reports of Aliens, 1798-1828, at FS 

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists Index, 1800-1906, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1948, at FMP$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1800-1962, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Philadelphia Bank Immigrant Passage Records, 1890-1949, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Crew Lists arriving at Erie, 1952-1957, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigration of Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Index to the names of 30,000 immigrants–German, Swiss, Dutch and French–into Pennsylvania, 1727-1776. : supplementing the I., at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania German Pioneers Passenger Lists, Palatine German Immigrant Ships to Philadelphia 1727-1808, RW

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – The Genealogical record of the Schwenkfelder families: seekers of religious liberty who fled from Silesia to Saxony and thence to Pennsylvania in the years 1731-1737, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Order Sons of Italy in America, Enrollment and Death Benefit Records, 1910-1968, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Pennsylvania, Order Sons of Italy in America, Mortuary Fund Claims, 1917-1978, at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Ancestor Search, Palatine German Ship Passenger Lists to PA, SFA

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. II: (New Jersey and Pennsylvania Monthly Meetings), at Anc$

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Immigration of Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, at GB

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Welsh founders of Pennsylvania, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – Card index to Pennsylvania Germans in the magazines : Proceedings and addresses (Pennsylvania German Society); Pennsylvania Dutchman; PGFS or Pennsylvania German Folklore Society; Penn-Germania; The Pennsylvania-German; Historical review of Berks County; Reprint, the Morning call; some copied Bible records, 1713-1951, and news clippings, at FS

Pennsylvania – Emigration & Immigration – A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, at IA

Pennsylvania Immigration Records online at the county level

Berks County – Emigration and Immigration – Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites : Eshbach Homestead Near Lauperswil, Switzerland

Berks County – Emigration and Immigration – The History of Jerusalem “Allemaengel” Church; Albany Township, Berks Co., Pa.; Two Hundredth Anniversary, 1747-1947

Bucks County – Emigration and Immigration – Marriages, Early Wills and Arrivals of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1677-1686, at FS

Bucks County – Emigration and Immigration – Welsh Settlers of Hilltown and New Britain, 1700-1899, at FS

Bucks County – Migration, Internal – The Sailing of the Ship “Submission” in the Year 1682, with a True Copy of the Vessel’s Log, at FS

Chester County – Migration, Internal – Miscellaneous Records from Chester County, Pennsylvania, at FS

Chester County – Church History – Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatinate, 1704-1717, at FS

Chester County – Church History – Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatinate, 1718-1726, at FS

Philadelphia County – Emigration and Immigration – A List of German Immigrants to the American Colonies from Zweibruecken in the Palatinate, 1750-1771

Philadelphia County – Emigration and Immigration – Amish Immigrant Ships : a List of Amish Immigrants to the New World

Philadelphia County – Emigration and Immigration – Immigration Lists, Oaths of Allegiance in Philadelphia, Books A-G, 1728-1775

Philadelphia County – Emigration and Immigration – Inbound Alien Crew Lists with Related Forms, at the Port of Phila, PA, 1946

Philadelphia County – Emigration and Immigration – United States, Eastern US Ports, Passenger Lists

Pennsylvania Immigration Records online at the city level

Erie – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Crew Lists Arriving at Erie : COLLECTION RECORD, 1952-1957

Erie – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Crew Lists Arriving at Erie, 1952-1957

Erie – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Crew Lists Arriving at Erie : COLLECTION RECORD, 1952-1957

Erie – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Crew Lists Arriving at Erie, 1952-1957

Germantown – Emigration and Immigration – German Families, at FS

Hilltown Township – Emigration and Immigration – Welsh Settlers of Hilltown and New Britain, 1700-1899, at FS

New Britain – Emigration and Immigration – Welsh Settlers of Hilltown and New Britain, 1700-1899, at FS

Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Seamen’s Proofs of Citizenship, 1791-1861, index & images, at FS

Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger List Index Cards, 1883-1948, index & images, at FS

Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists Index, 1800-1906, index & images, at FS

Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1882, index & images, at FS

Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1883-1945, index & images, at FS

Philadelphia – Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia 1682-1750, at Anc$

Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Immigration Records, Special Boards of Inquiry, 1893-1909, at Anc$

Philadelphia – An Alphabetical Index to Ulster Emigration to Philadelphia, 1803-1850, at Anc$

Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Case Files of Chinese Immigrants, 1900-1923, at FS

Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Indentures, 1771-1773, at Anc$

Philadelphia – Emigration & Immigration – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Philadelphia Arrivals 1753-1860, Vol. 6, at IS

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – A Portion of Registry of Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1686

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Card File of Detainee Immigrants, 1914-1921

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Immigrant Records, 1884-1952

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Immigration Lists, Oaths of Allegiance in Philadelphia, Books A-G, 1728-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, 1800-1906 : National Archives Microfilm Publications, Pamphlet Describing M360

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Jewish Immigrant Aid Societies’ Records of Jewish Arrivals, 1913-1947

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Jewish Petition Cards to Bring Relatives to the United States, 1923-1935

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Landing Reports of Aliens, 1798-1832

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Landing Verification Cards, 1907-1914

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Lists of Foreigners Who Arrived at Philadelphia, 1791-1792

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Lists of Foreigners Who Arrived at Philadelphia, 1791-1792

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Lists of Palatine Immigrants Who Arrived in Philadelphia in 1727

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger List of the Ship “Elizabeth,” Which Arrived at Philadelphia in 1819

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, 1800-1882 with Index 1800-1906 : U. S. National Archives Microfilm Publications M360, M425.

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia,1883-1945; Index (soundex) to Passenger Lists Arriving at Philadelphia, 1883-1948; Book Indexes, 1906-1926 : NARA Publications T840, M526, and T791

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania German Pioneers : a Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania Landing Reports of Aliens : COLLECTION RECORD, 1798-1828

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger List Index Cards : COLLECTION RECORD, 1883-1948

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1800-1882

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1883-1945

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Immigration (Lazaretto Register), 1847-1893

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger List Index Cards : COLLECTION RECORD, 1883-1948

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1800-1882

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1883-1945

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists Index : COLLECTION RECORD, 1800-1906

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Prepaid Steamship Ticket Record, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1906-1948

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Records, 1884-1934

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Registry of the Redemptioners, 1785-1804, 1817-1831

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Rupps 30,000 Names (extract) : Emigrants Landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1730-1800; December 11, 1739, Among Others, Hans Jacob Free; 75 Palatines on the Ship Lydia, Captain James Allen, from London

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775 : (continued from Page 100)

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775 : (continued from Page 235)

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775 : (continued from Vo. XXVII, Page 498)

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites : Engel Sites in the Emmental and the Jura

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – The Compass : Vol. 1 & 3-24, 29-37

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ticket Purchase Books and Index, 1899-1930

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Ticket Purchase Books, 1890-1934

Philadelphia – Emigration and Immigration – Trans-Atlantic Travel for Palatines