Many thousands of Irish families moved to the USA and one of the best websites to help you search for your emigrating anestors is www.ellisisland.org which contains surviving records for the Ellis Island Immigration Processing Centre in New York Bay. Open from 1892-1954, it was the first federal immigration inspection centre.
Many pre-1897 records (including those from its predecessor the Castle Garden Immigration Centre) were destroyed in a fire, but the records after 1897 survive and include ships' manifests.
The free Castle Garden database at www.castlegarden.org allows the visitor to search surviving records for immigrants beween 1820 and 1913.
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