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Search Ship Manifests - By Passenger Last Name
This page allows you to search on a passenger's last name to find ship manifest entries relating to Armenian passengers to North America through 1930.
The Ship Manifests database table currently represents some of the estimated 100,000 to 125,000 arrivals of Armenians to seaports in North America through 1930. Most of the abstracts are from ship manifests to New York (Castle Garden before 1892, Ellis Island in 1892 and later). Other important seaports for arriving passengers include Providence, Philadelphia, Boston, and San Francisco in the USA, and Halifax, Quebec, and St. John (New Brunswick) in Canada. Passengers also arrived at a number of smaller seaports. Armenians boarded ships from seaports on the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe, from the Mediterranean Sea, from American seaports in Cuba and Argentina, and Pacific seaports in Japan and China. Some even left from seaports on the Black Sea, Arctic Ocean, and Baltic Sea. Most of my early research consisted of a systematic abstraction of ship manifests for steamships traveling from French ports on the Atlantic Ocean (Le Havre, Cherbourg, Boulogne, and Bordeaux) to New York, between 1892 and 1914. That was followed by a focus on steamships bringing Armenian refugees to America after the end of WW1, primarily in the period between 1920 and 1924. Over 4,000 "ship trips" have been searched so far. (A ship trip is a voyage between a source port and a destination port. Many steamships gathered passengers from multiple source ports on the same voyage.) As I research Armenians in other primary sources (like military draft registrations, censuses, and naturalization records), I try to find those same individuals on one or more ship manifests. When I research a ship manifest, I abstract all Armenians on that particular ship trip. Thousands of more voyages remained to be researched.
I have also started adding entries from border crossing documents from Mexico and Canada to the USA into this table. These are especially important for those Armenians who came to the USA through Mexico, since ship manifests into Mexico from overseas are not available (as they are for Canada). You can distinguish a border crossing from a ship arrival by the absence of the ship name.
To see what ship trips have been searched for inclusion into this database table, select the following link:
Ship Manifests Scope
Names on the ship manifests were extremely variable in spelling. Most are phonetic equivalents to the original Armenian names, but some are quite difficult to reconcile to a known Armenian last name. The drop-down list to the right of the label "Last Name" includes all passenger last names in the database, exactly as written on the manifests, for the ship lists abstracted so far. I strongly suggest that you also go to the query "By Passenger Last Name (Std.)" to search under the standardized spelling of the passenger last name, since some last names were written down using over a dozen different spellings on the manifests. In the result table below, click the "view" icon to the left of the table entry to see the information abstracted from that record.
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includes link(s) to additional records)| Action | Passenger Name | Age | Sex | Destination Date (Port) / Ship | Birth Place | Last Residence | Joining Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abadjan | |||||||
| Abadjan [Abajian], Filor | 27 | F | 1913-03-31 (New York) / Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | 450 S. Clarence St. / Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Abadjan [Abajian], Goharik | 6m | F | 1913-03-31 (New York) / Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | 450 S. Clarence St. / Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Abadjan [Abajian], Neward | 10 | F | 1913-03-31 (New York) / Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | 450 S. Clarence St. / Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Abadjan [Abajian], Pajlazun | 4 | F | 1913-03-31 (New York) / Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | 450 S. Clarence St. / Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Abadjan [Abajian], Sawen | 2 | M | 1913-03-31 (New York) / Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | 450 S. Clarence St. / Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Abadjan [Abajian], Sumpat | 33 | M | 1913-03-31 (New York) / Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | Kars (Karakala), Kars (oblast), Russia | 450 S. Clarence St. / Los Angeles, CA, USA |