NARA
Our Branch has microfilm of passenger lists of vessels arriving at
the port of New York from 1820 to July 3, 1957, and indexes for the
years 1820-1846 and 1897-1948. Also available on microfilm are book
indexes to the New York passenger lists, 1906-1942. We are unable to
search this microfilm for specific entries or provide reproductions in
response to letters or telephone calls. These records are available
for use in our public research room. They are not currently available
on the Internet.
You are welcome to come to our facility to use these records.
If you are not planning to visit our facility to conduct your research,
you can resubmit your request furnishing us with your United States
Postal Address. We can then send you NATF-81
(Order For Copies Of Ship Passenger Arrival Records) forms that you
can send to the National Archives in Washington, DC. These forms are
not available via E-mail. They have all available lists and indexes
of the ports passengers arrived at in the United States. They will
conduct a search of the index of the port you list and make copies of
the Ship's Manifest pages concerning the individuals you request if you
can furnish them with sufficient information. Again, you can contact the
local Family History Center in your area. These Family History Centers
also have passenger arrival records and indexes for many ports for
various years.
Among our holdings the Regional Archives has photocopies of naturalization
records for the period, 1792 through 1906, filed in Federal, State, and
local courts located in New York City. We also hold records of naturalization
filed in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to
1991, the Eastern District of New York to 1990 (with an index to 1977),
the Western District of New York, which is located in Buffalo, from 1907
to 1966 and the U.S. District Court of New Jersey (Newark office),
from 1914 to 1982, along with related indexes. Included in our inventory of
New Jersey records are naturalization records from the New Jersey
District Court (Trenton office) from 1838 to 1906 with an index.
You may use our research room for these records also. On site copies cost
the same as indicated above. Naturalization records can also be searched
by our staff for you. Although we can not perform extensive research on
the indexes, we will search them for one or two names. We would need your
postal address for us to send you Naturalization request forms. If you
feel that the papers of individuals you are interested in can possibly
be found among the records described above these request forms would be
completed with as much information as possible to help facilitate our search.
Due to the extensive amount of mail received at this office we ask that
no more than three search inquiries be submitted per letter in a two week
period. If an index is located for the name(s) given we will send you
copies of the card(s) to identify as relating to the individual(s) in
whom you are interested. If you then want a copy of the naturalization
record the minimum fee by mail would be $10.00 and the check would be
made payable to the NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST FUND. This minimum fee
covers the cost of up to 20 pages.
Although the records you are looking for are not available on-line, if
you wish to visit the National Archives & Records Administration Homepage
it can be found at:
http://www.nara.gov
If you have any further questions please feel free to e-mail again or call
us at 212-337-1300. If you do want any of the printed material
indicated above please resubmit your request indicating what you want
along with your postal address. You do not need an appointment to use any
of the above records at our facility.
Sincerely,
CAROL A. SAVO
Archives Technician
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