Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Italians to the United States

The information was extracted from ship passenger lists in the records of the U.S. Customs Service (NARA Record Group 36). The series consists of records of 845,369 individuals who immigrated from Italy to the United States, 1855-1900.

Each of the records contains data on a passenger and may include name, age, town of last residence, destination, passenge r's sex, occupation, literacy, country of origin, transit or travel compartment, passenger port of embarkation, and the identification number for the ship manifest. This manifest number is also in the manifest header file that identifies the ship's port of departure (embarkation), place of arrival, date of arrival, and number of passengers.