FamilySearch.org has a new FREE database titled NEW YORK, INDEX TO PASSENGER LISTS OF VESSELS, 1897-1902 .  It includes 5,058 people born in Greece and an additional 3,691 born in Turkey. This collection contains indexes to passenger lists of vessels arriving at New York, New York. The records were compiled between 1897 and 1902. It corresponds with NARA series T519. The cards are arranged in alphabetical order and contain such information as name, date and place of birth, sex, occupation, nationality, place of last residence, etc. Passenger arrival lists, or customs manifests, date back to 1820. The first official emigration station for New York was Castle Garden, located at the tip of lower Manhattan. Congressional action in 1891 resulted in federal immigration officials recording the immigrants’ arrival. After January 1892, passengers arriving in New York debarked at Ellis Island, located east of Manhattan in the New York Harbor. From 1892 to 1924, almost all immigrants...

1902 - Greek Passengers Arriving at Port of New York (448 Names Total) -------------------------------- Use this Index as an additional tool that may be of help in locating those elusive ancestors and the  passenger ships they arrived on.   Names are as they were transcribed on Microfilmed Index Cards at the National Archives or other resources. Note:  This is not to be considered a complete Index of Greek passengers, and as a matter of fact, people who stated that their birthplace was Greece may be from other ethnic backgrounds.  Also, these listings may or may not include people from some Balkan countries, that were occupied by the Ottoman Empire, where the people considered themselves to be Greek or from the Asia Minor territories.  Also, keep in mind that country boundaries kept changing.   ARRIVED IN NEW YORK ON SS VANDERLAND ON JANUARY 21, 1902 Zamali, Eustatheos - Age 34 ARRIVED IN NEW YORK ON SS LAHN ON FEBRUARY 27, 1902 Barlars...

1901 - Greek Passengers Arriving at Port of New York (840 Names Total) Arrivals July - December 1901 -------------------------------- Use this Index as an additional tool that may be of help in locating those elusive ancestors and the  passenger ships they arrived on.   Names are as they were transcribed on Microfilmed Index Cards at the National Archives or other resources. Note:  This is not to be considered a complete Index of Greek passengers, and as a matter of fact, people who stated that their birthplace was Greece may be from other ethnic backgrounds.  Also, these listings may or may not include people from some Balkan countries, that were occupied by the Ottoman Empire, where the people considered themselves to be Greek or from the Asia Minor territories.  Also, keep in mind that country boundaries kept changing.   ARRIVED IN NEW YORK ON SS PHOENICIA ON JULY 6, 1901 Legakis, Leonidas - Age 18 Marinakis, Cleomenis - Age 18 Meleti...