Ships' passenger lists exist only for the period 1890-1960. There are no passenger lists for air travel.

No lists exist for those emigrating to Ireland.

You will not find records of emigrants to Europe and the Mediterranean unless their ship was travelling elsewhere in the world and touched at a European port en route.

You can now access outward passenger lists (held in the series BT 27) online, courtesy of findmypast.com. There is a fee to download the records, although they are free to access on site. Find out more about these records

Ships' passenger lists, 1878-1960

Emigrants

Emigrants to North America After 1776

Transportation to Australia 1787-1868

Transportation to America and the West Indies, 1615-1776

Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall, Family History on the Move (The National Archives, 2006)