Ancestry categorizes these free records as follows:
To give you an idea of what’s included, here are a few numbers.
We divide our travel and immigration databases into six categories:
Category Number of Databases
Passenger Lists 166
Crew Lists 65
Border Crossings & Passports 15
Citizenship & Naturalization Records 62
Immigration & Emigration Books 187
Ship Pictures and Descriptions 2
And here’s a rough estimate of records available by country:
Country/Region # Databases Approximate # of Records
Australia 22 15+ million
Canada 31 13.5+ million
Europe 99 32.5+ million
Germany 28 9.4+ million
United States 246 33+ million
UK 40 18.7+ million
View samples of these records as displayed on the Ancestry Blog.
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