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The best overall guide to passenger lists for ships between Ireland and America is www. genealogybranches.com/irishpassengerlists.

Some lists of Irish people leaving for America have been published, especially B. Mitchell, Irish Passenger Lists, 1803–06, Lists of Passengers Sailing from Ireland to America Extracted from the Hardwick Papers (GPC, 1995) (about 4,500 people) and B. Mitchell, Irish Passenger Lists 1847–71, Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line & the McCorkell Line (GPC, 1988) (about 27, 500 people).

Generally, the best records are at the port of arrival. Some have been published and are indexed in P.W. Filby and M.K. Meyer, Passenger and Immigration Index (Gale Research Co., 3 vols, 1981) with annual supplements to 2000, now also on CD (to 1999) from Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives (#354).

Records of immigration and passenger lists at the American end are mostly at the NARA. Customs passenger lists date from 1820 and will only state the country of origin, but the Immigration Passenger Lists that started in 1883 will state the last place of residence – in many cases the actual place of birth.

For the Great Famine, see I.A. Glazier and M. Tepper, The Famine Immigrants, Lists of Irish Immigrants arriving at the Port of New York 1846–51 (GPC, 7 vols, 1893–6). Over 600,000 Famine immigrants, named in passenger lists and New York port arrivals, are indexed at www.ancestry.com. The database www.irishgenealogy.ie/famine_ship is a record of ships arriving 1846–51. Many Irish came through New York’s Castle Garden 1830–92 (see www.castlegarden.org) and Ellis Island 1892 and 1924 (www.ellisisland.org: these can also be searched without knowing the migrant’s initials at www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html).