8,849 born in Greece & Turkey - New York, Index to Passenger Lists 1897-1902

 

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 entered the United States through the port of New York.