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Many immigrants came through New York or one of the other East Coast ports and trans-shipped to Texas. The database lists only those who first disembarked in Texas. In all, the names of more than 130,000 passengers from the period 1846-1948 have been entered. Additional sources continue to be researched for future inclusion in the database. How was this information gathered? The museum staff transferred records from microfilm of Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service passenger manifests from the National Archives, books containing additional source material and isolated passenger lists published in The Galveston Daily News. Usually, one of the male family members immigrated first, to make enough money to afford to send for the rest of the family. There were many complete families, but more often they came at different times. The majority of the people who came to Galveston were either single men or wives with children. This explains why, if you find several people with the same last name, it is possible that when you view the record for that family, you will see the same family details page. If there were more than 7 people in the traveling family unit, the information was split into two records. When these records were entered into the database, space limitations allowed a maximum of 7 names to be recorded as a single “family unit”. The passenger arrival records normally listed people traveling together as a single record and included several first names. If an exact match is not found, a table of names closest to the spelling of the search name will appear on the screen. The first data retrieved is a table of all the last names that match the last name of the search. Searches of the Galveston Immigration Database are based on surnames – the family’s last name. The ship database includes ship name, type of ship, master, home port of ship, arrival date at Galveston, port of departure, destination port, tonnage, number of immigrants, shipowner, and citation source. Information is also provided for a small number of ship arrivals. What information is provided? The database includes names of passengers and members of their traveling parties, age, gender, occupation, country of origin, ship name, dates of departure and arrival, and destination in the United States. Galveston’s Immigration Experience – Ship To Shore.Galveston Historic Seaport – Home of the 1877 Tall Ship ELISSA.Galveston’s Juneteenth Exhibhit – “And Still We Rise…”.

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