Florida, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at St. Petersburg, Florida - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
Ship Passenger lists of the Port of St. Petersburg provided to ther Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization Service. The passenger lists are part of Record Group 85 Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and are from National Archive Microfilm Publication M1959 Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at St. Petersburg, Florida, December 1926-March 1941. The majority of the the ship departures were from Havana, Cuba.

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Florida, passenger lists of vessels arriving at St. Petersburg, Florida, 1926-1941
 * Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at ports in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, 1890-1924 : NARA RG85 publication T517

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