A young reader of my blog, Jake, recently shared with me a website worthy of your attention.

As you may know, ship passenger lists are among the “holy grails” of genealogy research.  They can be the link to your ancestor’s home country, the prior generation, and the means and method of immigration to America.  Finding those often elusive passenger lists can be quite a challenge.

Jake found a compilation of source links on an unlikely website.  Cruisedirect.com is for most people a place where you find and book cruise ships for your travel pleasure.  Surprisingly, they have a page – Finding Your Family from Passenger Ship Lists that aggregates links to other sources and other directories, such as the Ellis Island database.

Additionally, it has a long list of research tips for genealogists just getting started and other research opportunities when looking for passenger lists.

Thanks for the tip, Jake.

Happy Researching!