Directory of Emigration and Immigration Resources

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Resources that assist one in learning when and where ancestors entered or left a country. A primary source of information was the Passenger Arrival Records that were generated on board ship. Naturalization Records can sometimes also provide this information.

Subcategories

• Australia
• Directories
• Germany
• Passenger Lists
• Ports
• Ships
• United States

Resources in This Category

• Ellis Island Records

  http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/
  Searchable database and copies of passenger manifests of ships arriving at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924.

• 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 History Research Center

  http://cla.umn.edu/ihrc
  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Tracing Immigrant Origins

  http://www.genealogy.com/uni-immi.html
  Series of lessons on how to trace immigrant ancestors.

• 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.

Related Categories

• Home > Society > Ethnicity
• Home > Society > Genealogy > By Ethnic Group
• Home > Society > Issues > Immigration
• Home > Society > Law > Legal Information > Immigration

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