In this book, author and genealogist John P. Colletta prepares you to undertake the search for your immigrant ancestor’s arrival record. They Came in Ships guides you step-by-step through the research process, whether your immigrant ancestor arrived in a sailing vessel in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth century, or on board a steamship in the nineteenth or twentieth century.
This third edition contains expanded discussions of colonial period immigrant records and port-by-port peculiarities of the federal records.