Was there a New Orleans immigration station?

Erica Howton

I will do some fine tuning tomorrow cant keep my eyes open any longer, I know New Orleans was a port of arrival but not sure if it was an actual immigration center as such

There are some records available from the US Custom Service from 1820-1891 for New Orleans http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/t527.pdf

Anne-Marie, thanks.

(correcting myself)

http://www.byub.org/ancestors/records/immigration/intro1.html

Not all passenger lists for all ports have survived, but thousands have and are held by the National Archives. New York City was the main arrival port between 1820 and 1920, processing some 24 million immigrants.
Other major ports include

* Baltimore (1820-1952)
* Boston (1848-1891 and 1902-1920),
* New Orleans (1853-1952), and
* Philadelphia (1800-1948).

There are also records available for a number of smaller ports such as Portland, Maine; Providence, Rhode Island; Galveston, Texas; and San Francisco, California.

It's also useful to know that records exist for some land crossing points, such as the Canadian-American border.

My ancestors were Baltimore & Boston, from Europe. I wonder if New Orleans would have been more specifically for the Caribbean, Central America, South America.

Erica, to answer your last question: N.O. was not the arrival place for many Latin Americans and Caribbean peoples, but Italians, Germans and other western Europeans. (I am presently working on projects for clients, who's ancestors came thru New Orleans).

Let's start a N.O. immigration project!!

See also:
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Louisiana,_New_Orleans_Passe...

But my guys took the train from Baltimore, so I'm not particular help. :(

There were 36 ports that have Immigration Passenger Lists in the National Archives and the Regional Records centers.We need a USA Migration Portal to put this list and info.

Kenneth Kwame Welsh, (C) are we going to create projects for all 36 ports?
If so it would be better to set them up first and then create the umbrella USA Migration Portal?

That's a good idea. I mentioned in the Migration Portal discussion, we could set up state sub-projects. For example, Florida had about 10-12 places.

Team, is there a way to transfer this discussion to the Migration portal?

copy and paste? :p