New Orleans Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1820-1952

New Orleans Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1820-1952 : Finding New Orleans Immigration Records

This page lists research material for locating New Orleans, Louisiana passenger arrival records from 1820-1952. Included are online indexes, and microfilmed records and indexes. The microfilmed passenger lists from the National Archives are available to 1945, but they are indexed to 1952. They are indexed online until 1945.

New Orleans Passenger Lists Indexes

Online Index: New Orleans Passenger Lists Index 1820-1945 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
includes name index and digitized images of the passenger lists from the microfilm

Online Index: New Orleans Index Jan-July 1851

Microfilm Index: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans 1853-1899

Microfilm Index: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans 1900-1952

Microfilm Index: Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic & Gulf Ports 1820-1874 (includes some New Orleans arrivals from about 1820-1850; the first online index listed above has many more New Orleans arrivals for this time frame)

New Orleans Passenger Lists

Microfilm: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans 1820-1902

Microfilm: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans 1903-1945

Microfilm: Quarterly Abstracts of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans 1820-1875 (NARA Publication M272) Some early New Orleans passenger lists are missing - this series is used as a supplement as it contains some of the otherwise missing lists. If you can't find the list you need on the "Passenger Lists of Vessels..." microfilms listed above then you may want to search these Quarterly Abstracts.

Online Lists (indexed transcriptions): New Orleans Passenger Lists - Jan, Feb & March 1845, and Jan, Feb & March 1847 (partial)

New Orleans Passenger Lists Quick Guide 1820-1952

by Joe Beine