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Ellis Island Records - http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
Searchable database and copies of passenger manifests of ships arriving at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Thirteen Reasons Our Ancestors Migrated - http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=1436
Article by George G. Morgan. |
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Migrations - http://www.migrations.org
Volunteer project with links to migration information and a searchable database that collects and analyzes migration data. USA. |
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Primer of Emigration & Immigration - http://www.pgsa.org/primer.htm
PGSA's introduction to migration, ports of entry, ship passenger lists,and naturalization records. |
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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. |
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Twenty Two Million Immigrants Became Americans on Ellis Island - http://www.epinions.com/content_19030773380
Detailed review of Ellis Island Records. |
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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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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. |
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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. |