Immigration and passenger lists — where to find them free
Arrivals by ship or border: name, age, origin, destination, sometimes the relative they were joining. The bridge between the old country and the new.
Public archives Provara searches for immigration and passenger lists
Passenger lists, naturalizations, military service and pension files, homestead/land files, census images, federal records
Immigration and passenger indexes, naturalisations, wills, inquests, hospital deaths, gaol registers, orphanages, Boer War — 12 of 128 CC BY indexes searched live
Wills and probate, inquests, land, immigration indexes — keyless JSON API works
Censuses 1801–1920, church books, emigrant lists
How to ask
In Provara, ask Provara when and where an ancestor arrived. With web search on, it searches all 2 live archives above in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.
Start freeEvery licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.