American Passenger Arrival Records. a Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam (Updated and Enl)

This work examines passenger arrival records in their historical and legal framework and it explains what they contain where they can be found and how they can be used. In effect it is a road map through the mass of records and archival resources documenting immigrant arrivals from the time of the earliest settlements to the passage of the Quota Acts three centuries later.