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The Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history. The Museum's site features program information, directions, hours and online tickets and reservations.

Immigrants to Canada UWInfo | Marj's Homepage | Genealogy | Local History | Young Immigrants | Sessional Papers Courtesy of Greg Cochkanoff and Zack Jennings Emigration Information of the Nineteenth Century And Ships They Came On: The information on these pages has been extracted from various government records, as well as the odd shipping record (mostly from the Allan Line). It contains, voyage ...

IMMIGRATION AND SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS RESEARCH GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS Last updated May 31, 2001 The goal of this Guide is to help in research of immigration records and ship's passenger lists, both on-line and off-line. The emphasis is on helping those who may be new to this research, but it includes tips, links, and help that may be of interest to all. This Guide is based on material ...

The purpose of this page is to provide tips for those tracing their Mormon Pioneer ancestry from Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and South Africa to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Resources for teachers provides an index - by themes, topics, diplines or eras - to teacher created lesson plans using primary sources from the American Memory collections - from the leaning Page, The library of Congress.

This site is sponsored by Jersey City Newest Portal www.JerseyCityOnline.com Click Here Let Jersey City Prosper Online Click Here Liberty State Park Ellis Island Great Hall THE IMMIGRANT JOURNEY THE EARLY YEARS Located in the upper New York Bay, a short distance from the New Jersey shore, Ellis Island was originally known to Native Americans as Kioshk, or Gull Island, named for the birds that ...

This outline introduces the principles, search strategies, and various record types you can use to identify an immigrant ancestor's original hometown. These principles can be applied to almost any country.

New York State Library Genealogy Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors Getting Started | Naturalization Records | Passenger Lists | Alien Deposition Records | Diverse resources are available for researching an immigrant. Some basic tools of research in the New York State Library's collection are listed below. New York State Library call numbers have been included in parentheses after the citation; if ...

Note: The following article is taken from The Illustrated London News, July 6, 1850. ---(Proceed down to at least the bottom of the table)--- THE TIDE OF EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AND TO THE BRITISH COLONIES. The great tide of Emigration flows steadily westward. The principal emigrants are Irish peasants and labourers. It is calculated that at least four out of every five persons who leave ...