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The Balch Institute documents and interprets the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States.
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Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Studies has merged into the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. You will be automatically redirected to our new site. At the new site, follow the Education link for Pennsylvania ethnic history and the contemporary immigrant experience. Follow the Research Collections link...Research guide and bibliography presented by the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/toc/...logy/immigrant/76375618.toc.html
Tips for those tracing their Mormon pioneer ancestry from Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and South Africa to Salt Lake City, Utah.
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer.htm
Searchable database and copies of passenger manifests of ships arriving at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924.
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
PGSA's introduction to migration, ports of entry, ship passenger lists,and naturalization records.
http://www.pgsa.org/primer.htm
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.
http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc
Information on the society and its German emphasis.
http://feefhs.org/igs/frg-igs.html
The travel and arrival of immigrants to Ellis Island as presented by Liberty State Park.
http://www.libertystatepark.com/immigran.htm
Graph showing the number of immigrants to the U.S. by decade.
http://showme.missouri.edu/~socbrent/immigr.htm
An article by John Philip Colletta describing how technology has affected genealogy research.
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/5079.asp
This article in the "Illustrated London News," July 6, 1860, describes emigration from Ireland and the United Kingdom and the journey across the Atlantic.
http://www-adm.pdx.edu/user/frinq/pluralst/tide.htm
Immigration resources at the New York State Library.
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/genealogy/tracimmi.htm
Voyage accounts, emigration information, lists of ships sailing to Canada, information on the ports, and on the people. Extracted from government and shipping records.
http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html
Arnie Lang's research guide for immigration records and passenger lists.
http://home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.html
Volunteer project with links to migration information and a searchable database that collects and analyzes migration data. USA.
http://www.migrations.org
Article by George G. Morgan.
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/george/1436.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.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/...de/tracing_immigrant_origins.asp
Series of lessons on how to trace immigrant ancestors.
http://www.genealogy.com/uni-immi.html
These lesson plans from the "American Memory" project at the Library of Congress include 3 units exploring Immigration.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/theme.html
An index to genealogical microfilm rolls published by the National Archives and Records Administration.
http://www.archives.gov/publicat...t/customs_records_1820_1891.html
The Wisconsin Historical Society describes how to obtain naturalization records.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/natlzn/index.html
Detailed review of Ellis Island Records.
http://www.epinions.com/content_19030773380
Online database of emigration lists available to genealogists.
http://www.hamburg.de/fhh/behoer...chiv/link_to_your_roots/english/
The former Immigration and Naturalization Service. Information and services available to the public.
http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/index.htm
Bibliographic essay by Donna R. Gabaccia.
http://www.h-net.org/~shgape/bibs/immig.html
Summarizes the types of naturalization records that genealogy researchers can be expected to find.
http://www.genealogybranches.com/naturalization.html
A description of the passenger arrival records in Canada, 1865-1935, and their availability. Searchable online database of records 1925-1935.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020118_e.html