"UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960" is a database on-line through  Ancestry.com. Description: 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. The UK port of arrival was not necessarily the final destination of the ship. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger lists, copied from The National Archives (TNA) collection series BT26. The passenger lists date from 1878 to 1888 and 1890 to 1960. However, many of the pre-1890 lists were irregularly destroyed by the Board of Trade in 1900. Therefore, there are not many lists included in this database that date from these earlier years. Separate lists were kept for British (and Commonwealth) passengers and Alien passengers. In addition, there was a variety of form types used throughout the years. These differences in forms may result in a variety of information recorded for different passengers. ----------------------------------------------------------- As an example of what you might find, when I do a search for one of my County Tyrone ancestor surnames, Hadden (of any spelling, including Haddon, Haddan, Hayden, etc.), arriving 1878-1898, the results are 417 names. Ports of departure include New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Montreal, Quebec; St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; Sydney, Australia; Natal, Brazil; Savanilla, Columbia; South Africa; Valparaiso, Chile; River Plate, South America; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Calcutta, India; Wellington, New Zealand; and others. Annie