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Using Maritime Records in Family History Research
Gathering information on the vessels your family used to emigrate to America can be helpful both in researching your ancestors' origins and in understanding their journeys. The British National Maritime Museum has an excellent overview on Tracing Family History from Maritime Records

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Lloyd's of London was originally a gathering of mariners, merchants, and insurance underwriters that gathered together at Edward Lloyd's coffee house in London. Starting around 1734 (Old Style) Edward Lloyd started printing a news-sheet with the latest news for his customers. By 1734, Lloyd's List had evolved in a weekly newspaper covering shipping news.
 * Lloyd's List (1741–1826) at Books Boxes & Boats

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Over time, the insurance underwriters at Lloyd's Coffee House organised and started publishing Lloyd's Register with information on British ships, as well as many American ones.
 * Lloyd's Register of Shipping (1764–2000) at Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre
 * Lloyd's Register of Shipping (1776–1902) at HathiTrust Digital Library
 * Lloyds Register of Shipping (1764–1900 & 1939–1941) at Books Boxes & Boats

Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre also publishes a database of Ships, Plans & Survey Reports (1834–1960) and numerous "InfoSheets" some of which are directed specifically to Family Historians.

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An annual shipping register published by the American Shipmaster's Association
 * Record of American and Foreign Shipping (1871–1900) at Mystic Seaport Museum
 * Record of American and Foreign Shipping (1872–1923) at HathiTrust Digital Library


 * Mystic Seaport Museum : Description
 * Ship Registers
 * American Lloyd’s Register of American and Foreign Shipping (1859–1883)
 * New-York Marine Register (1857–1858)
 * Record of American and Foreign Shipping (1871–1900)
 * Connecticut Ship Database, 1789–1939
 * Crew Lists, New London, Connecticut (1803–1878)
 * Crew Lists, Salem, Massachusetts (1799–1879)
 * Registers of Seamen’s Protection Certificates (1796–1871)

[catalog.hathitrust.org] Lloyd’s Register Record of American and Foreign Shipping Merchant Vessels of the United States
 * www.maritimearchives.co.uk
 * Lloyds List
 * Lloyds Register
 * Mercantile Navy List

Passenger lists and Emigrant ships from Norway Heritage The Ships List

Whaling

List of American-Flag Merchant Vessels that received certificates of enrollment of registry at the port of New York (1789–1867) by Forrest R. Holdcamper
 * Volume 1  Volume 2

Merchant Sail, by William Armstrong Fairburn
 * Volume 1  Volume 2   Volume 3   Volume 4   Volume 5

Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, Bureau of Navigation
 * 1884  1888   1895   1896   1899   1900   1902   1903   1904   1905   1909   1910   1913   1915   1920   1925   1930   1935   1939   1945