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Immigration, Citizenship & Migration

Migration Resources

 

Castle Garden for immigration to the US between 1830 and 1892

 

Ellis Island for immigration to the US between 1892-1924

 

Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade for data on 35,000 slaving voyages

 

Stephen P. Morse One-Stop Searches for passenger lists

 

Cyndi's List for Immigration Resources and related migration resources

 

US Citizenship & Immigration Services

 

Some of the books in the Seymour Library:

 

Atlas of American Migration / Stephen A. Flanders

 

Bound away : Virginia and the westward movement / David Hackett Fischer

 

Carolina cradle; settlement of the northwest Carolina frontier, 1747-1762 / Robert Wayne Ramsey

 

Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815 / William Dollarhide

 

Immigration books from English public records as well as forced emigrations to America and migrations within America by Peter Wilson Coldham

 

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America / David Hackett Fischer

Various passenger and immigration indexes including Filby and others plus a number of books on German arrivals; articles on Venne and Osnabrook emigrants in Germanic genealogy : a guide to worldwide sources and migration patterns / Edward R. Brandt

 

General Resources

 

Heritage Quest Online has books with various mgration-related reports and the PERSI index to articles; log on with library barcode

 

WorldCat can find reports on immigration, citizenship, migration

 

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Online Resources

Frequently Used:

Heritage Quest Online

Google

INSPIRE

Jackson Co Digital Archive

JCPL Catalog

FamilySearch

June 2009