Overview
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (PILI) was first published in 1981. The initial set indexed 200 lists, covering about 500,000 persons. Since then, forty-two supplements have been released, increasing coverage to more than 5.2 million names. This is still only a fraction of the 35 million immigrants who reached the New World between the sixteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. It is the aim of PILI to lead you to the sources that will unravel some of the mysteries surrounding this fascinating group of people, particularly as they relate to individual family histories.
Features & Benefits
- Arranged alphabetically, each entry includes name of immigrant, age, date and port of arrival or place of first mention in New World, names and ages of family members, coded source to consult for further information.
- Cross references connect immigrant ancestors to other family members.
- The "Bibliography of Sources Indexed" provides complete information about each of the cited sources.
- The "How to Locate Sources Indexed" section provides a sampling of institutions with major holdings of genealogical publications.
- Features 100,000 total entries from new sources.
What's New
PASSENGER AND IMMIGRATION LISTS INDEX: 2019 SUPPLEMENT assembles in alphabetical format more than 100,000 immigrants from Russia and Italy who arrived in the Americas in the nineteenth century.