WHERE DID THOSE IMMIGRANTS LAND?

The Riverton FamilySearch Library posted a list of  US and Canada ports of entry which is shown below.

Immigration Ports of Entry

If you can’t find immigration records in New York ports, try other ports…

Major U.S. Immigrant Ports:

• Castle Garden - It operated until the U.S. Office of Immigration opened the newly built Ellis Island in 1892.
• Ellis Island - In the Upper New York Bay, it was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the U.S. as the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station for over 60 years from 1892 until 1954.
• Philadelphia - In the 1800s, they came through Philadelphia and headed to Texas or the Midwest.
• Boston
• Baltimore
• New Orleans - Coming through New Orleans during Civil War times avoided pressure to join the Union Army; although doing so meant quick naturalization.  In the 1700s, most of our German ancestors came from Rotterdam through New Orleans.
• San Francisco
• Galveston

Canada - Canada was easier and less expensive.  By the 1890s, Canadian steamship companies advertised that passage through Canada was a way to avoid the US government’s rigorous immigration inspections.  Look for records in all these ports.

·         Quebec City, Quebec

·         Halifax, Nova Scotia

·         Saint John, New Brunswick

·         North Sydney, Nova Scotia

·         Vancouver, British Columbia

·         Victoria, British Columbia