Knowledge: emigration and immigration
See Also:
- society → ethnicity
- society → genealogy → by ethnic group
- society → issues → immigration
- society → law → legal information → immigration
Links
- Primer of Emigration & Immigration
http://www.pgsa.org/primer.htm - PGSA's introduction to migration, ports of entry, ship passenger lists,and naturalization records.
- Immigrant Journey
http://www.libertystatepark.com/immigran.htm - The travel and arrival of immigrants to Ellis Island as presented by Liberty State Park.
- Immigration: The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/ - Covers several different ethnic groups' introduction to the U.S. Includes timeline of immigration, personal stories of both immigrants and workers at Ellis Island, and a discussion of The Statue of Liberty.
- Tracing Mormon Pioneers
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer.htm - Tips for those tracing their Mormon pioneer ancestry from Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and South Africa to Salt Lake City, Utah.
- The Tide of Emigration
http://www-adm.pdx.edu/user/frinq/pluralst/tide.htm - This article in the "Illustrated London News," July 6, 1860, describes emigration from Ireland and the United Kingdom and the journey across the Atlantic.
- New York State Library: Genealogy: Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/genealogy/tracimmi.htm - Immigration resources at the New York State Library.
- Immigrants to Canada in the Nineteenth Century
http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html - Voyage accounts, emigration information, lists of ships sailing to Canada, information on the ports, and on the people. Extracted from government and shipping records.
- Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists Research Guide
http://home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.html - Arnie Lang's research guide for immigration records and passenger lists.
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
http://www.tenement.org/ - New York's Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history. The Museum's site features program information, directions, hours and online tickets and reservations.
- Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online
http://www.cimorelli.com/safe/shipmenu.htm - Collection of databases comprised of the Morton Allan Directory, M1066 Microfilm series from NARA, various newspaper articles, Internet sources, and personal contributions. Can also search for ships.
- Migrations
http://www.migrations.org - Volunteer project with links to migration information and a searchable database that collects and analyzes migration data. USA.
- Family Search: Tracing Immigrant Origins
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/tracing_immigrant_origins.asp - Introduces the principles of research, search strategies, and the various record types which can be used to identify an immigrant ancestor's original hometown.
- Tracing Immigrant Origins
http://www.genealogy.com/uni-immi.html - Series of lessons on how to trace immigrant ancestors.
- Library of Congress: Lesson Ideas
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/theme.html - These lesson plans from the "American Memory" project at the Library of Congress include 3 units exploring Immigration.
- Wisconsin Naturalization Records
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/natlzn/ - The Wisconsin Historical Society describes how to obtain naturalization records.
- Twenty Two Million Immigrants Became Americans on Ellis Island
http://www.epinions.com/content_19030773380 - Detailed review of Ellis Island Records.
- From One Life to Another
http://library.thinkquest.org/26786/ - Late 19th and early 20th century immigration to the USA, with an emphasis on Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Swedish immigration.
- Immigration in the Guilded Age and Progressive Era
http://www.h-net.org/~shgape/bibs/immig.html - Bibliographic essay by Donna R. Gabaccia.
- Types of US Naturalization Records
http://www.genealogybranches.com/naturalization.html - Summarizes the types of naturalization records that genealogy researchers can be expected to find.
- Canadian Genealogy Centre: Immigration Records
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020118_e.html - A description of the passenger arrival records in Canada, 1865-1935, and their availability. Searchable online database of records 1925-1935.
- Ellis Island Records
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ - Searchable database and copies of passenger manifests of ships arriving at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924.
- Hamburg State Archive: Link to Your Roots
http://fhh.hamburg.de/stadt/ - Online database of emigration lists available to genealogists.
- Immigration History Research Center
http://www.ihrc.umn.edu - The IHRC at the University of Minnesota is an international resource on American immigration and ethnic history. It maintains archival and library collections, sponsors academic and public programs, and publishes bibliographic and scholarly works.
- Thirteen Reasons Our Ancestors Migrated
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=1436 - Article by George G. Morgan.
- Technology's Impact on Immigrant Records
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5079 - An article by John Philip Colletta describing how technology has affected genealogy research.
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