Ancestry.com is offering free access for one week (August 29 through September 5, 2011) to their Immigration & Travel records that span the globe.

 

"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 & 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

 

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