We are in process of transcribing the pre 1875 passenger lists, and are able to present a selection of more than 100 lists here. We are now testing a new search option for the emigrant database. If you would like to sponsor our work with the search engine it would me much appreciated. Keep in mind that extractions and transcriptions may have errors or may be missing certain portions of the original source material. Always refer to the original source material whenever possible and only use extractions and transcriptions as a starting point to help guide you in your research. We also suggest that you read our article on hunting passenger lists. It will give you some good directions on where to start searching, and what lists are available. If you are in possession of a passenger list including Norwegian emigrants and would like to share it, please contact us. Special signs: ?? signifies that the handwriting in the original is indistinct or illegible. Part of a name, or an entire name might not be possible to decipher. Example: Ref Name Patronymic Farm/surname Age Sex 1 Th !! Holfeldt 29 f 2 Wilhelm !! Cl??t??ick 29 m 3 Hendrick !! Sandemo?? 30 m !! signifies that this information in the source must be wrong for obvious reasons. !! alone in a field means that the information is missing, see example above @ is used as a separator between two alternative readings of the original when it is impossible to decide which is the correct one. % indicates stricken out text in the source. If a word or a sentence is stricken out it is marked with a % in front and behind the stricken out word. * after a piece of information, e.g. a patronymic or surname/farm name, indicates that the information is not given in the original, but included by the registrator on the basis of the information regarding the surrounding persons in the source, like in the example below. Martha is not mentioned by surname, but it she is the wife of Torkel Sjursen Opstvedt, and the Opstvedt* name is added to Matha's information. Sjur is noted as son, so the patronymic should be Thorkelsen*, and surname Opstvedt*: Ref Name Patronymic Farm/surname Age Sex Status 1 Torkel Sjursen Opstvedt 44 m   2 Martha Johannesdatter Opstvedt* 39 f wife 3 Sjur Torkelsen* Opstvedt* 8-½ m son You have two options, browse the lists by year and ship, or search for emigrants in the database:

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1825 –>  1848   1849   1850   1851   1852   1853   1854   1855   1857   1858   1859   1860   1861   1862   1864   1865   1866   1867   1868   1869   1870   1871   1873 To see a transcript or a scan of a list, click the link in the "list" column. Clicking the name of the ship will take you to the ship description page, clicking the year will take you to the index of ships for that year.