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This CD identifies 200,000 immigrants who arrived at Atlantic and Gulf coast ports between the 17th century and the 19th century. Based on twenty volumes of ships' passenger lists published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, it provides such details as name, age, occupation, place of origin, port of departure, name of vessel, names of accompanying family members, and date and place of arrival. Included here are particulars of immigrants arriving at a host of different of ports: the French in Louisiana, the Scotch-Irish in South Carolina, Germans in Baltimore, Swedes on the Delaware, Quakers in Pennsylvania, and the English and Irish in Rhode Island, Nova Scotia, and ports up and down the coast.

With a few exceptions, the passenger lists included on this CD date from a period of time that pre-dates the keeping of official passenger arrival lists. Lacking both organization and centralization, these "unofficial" passenger lists are usually very difficult to find, making this CD one of the few practical solutions to an otherwise intractable research problem. Here, then, in one place, with a single electronic index, the researcher has access to a scattered and diverse body of source records that precede most official customs and immigration lists. (The CD does, however, include the oldest collection of federal passenger lists in existence--the so-called "baggage lists" featured in Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819, as well as a few other federal passenger lists.) The following are the books included on this CD:

*Settlers of Rensselaerswyck, 1630-1658
*A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773
*Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772
*Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston, 1820-1829
*Louisiana Colonials: Soldiers and Vagabonds
*The Canary Islands Migration to Louisiana, 1778-1783
*Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650-1700
*William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania
*Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania,1682-1750
*Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750
*The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638-1664. 2 vols.
*Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674
*Rhode Island Passenger Lists . . . 1798-1808 . . . 1820-1871
*Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819
*Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834
*Passenger Arrivals, 1819-1820
*Passengers Who Arrived in the United States . . . 1821-1823
*Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867. 2 vols.

System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at http://www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled "About this Family Archive" appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16, you must go to the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD. For FTM 2008 or higher, you must download the Family Archive Viewer.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.