Guidence-How to find entry reccords from europe into the UK

[stephenj98]

How to find entry reccords from Europe into the UK?
I am looking for a relative who came from Lithuania somewhere between 1880 and 1921 any advice on where to find this info?

[Ashtone]

Ancestry has a UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 collection.

Here's the link, but scroll down to read the About UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 guidance on availability.

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1518/

"This database is an index to the Board of Trade’s passenger lists of ships arriving in the United Kingdom and Ireland from foreign ports outside of Europe and the Mediterranean. Exceptions to this are vessels that originated outside of these areas but then picked up passengers in European or Mediterranean ports en route".

[rosie99]

You say they came between 1880 and 1921, you should be able to narrow down the dares by locating them on the census

[Bookbox]

Your best bet may be the Hamburg Passenger Lists, on Ancestry:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1068/

However, they are written in German, the indexing is shockingly poor, and not everyone from Lithuania will have used that route.

As has been suggested above, seek them first in an earlier census.

Try looking for them in other resources too, to narrow down the dates – birth records for any children born in the UK, naturalisation records, newspapers etc.

If you post some details, people may be able to help you search.

[garstonite]

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=856212.0

Liverpool was the busiest seaport in the world at that time

[stephenj98]

Thanks Folks, so his oldest daughter was born in 1904 in Scotland so worked out it was between 1876 and 1904 its strange I can find them on the 1921 census but not the 1911 census and the surname dose not appear on a passanger manifest from all the major passenger manifest or any reccords of naturalisation or even their name change to stevenson just like many lithuanians in that period did. so I think I have hit a brick wall I emailed the church in his villiage to see if I can get a baptismal reccord. wish me luck

[carolineasb]

Have you tried lots of * as a wild card if using Scotland's People website? My late friend's family was also Lithuanian and their name was different on practically every census/certificate even before they anglicised it.

[Biggles50]

Some of my Ancestors came from Italy, there is no record of their arrival.

There is only the 1881 through to the 1921 census to give clues to where they were.

1939 Register to follow up on their descendants.