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Immigration Records: Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600s-1800s

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This database contains immigration records for approximately 70,000 Scottish immigrants to the United States and Canada. Extracted from a great variety of sources both in North America and Scotland, the information collected here would otherwise be difficult to access. Records were compiled from private and public sources including passenger lists, newspapers, church records, land deeds, records of indenture, and oaths of allegiance.

Materials on this database originally spanned sixteen volumes authored by Scottish emigration authority David Dobson and published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. The author of more than twenty books, Mr. Dobson specializes in migration patterns and the historical background of the Scottish people's emigration. Among the sixteen comprehensive volumes you'll find The Original Scots Colonists and a series of supplements to that work. By itself, that work identifies virtually all of the Scottish settlers to America in the 1600s. The other volumes collected here are of equal quality and value.

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German and Swiss Settlers in America, 1700s-1800s Immigration Records

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The German and Swiss immigrants included in this resource mostly settled in the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. Among the great variety of resources collected here, you'll find historical essays on German influence in the settlement of Texas, the great Palatine migration from the Rhineland in 1709, as well as German and Swiss migration patterns...

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Ontario, 1858-1869 Marriage Index

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Search a consolidated database of previously scattered Ontario marriage records! Save yourself time and effort - hunt for your ancestors' marriages in one master index, instead of looking through microfilms of 40 county marriage registers or indexes one-by-one.

- Comprehensive coverage of Ontario marriage records between 1858 and July 1869
- Approximately 158,000 individuals referenced
- Genealogically valuable because these marriages were documented before province-wide registration of marriages began.

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Irish to America Passenger and Immigration Lists Volume 2, 1846-1886

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Sail across the Atlantic with your Irish ancestors using an all-new volume of Irish to America - completely new details for 550,000+ additional immigrants. Referencing arrivals in Boston between 1846 and 1851 and New York between 1866 and 1886.

You'll discover information taken from original ship manifest schedules - documents filed by all vessels entering United States. Irish to America was produced in collaboration with the Balch Institute Center for Immigration Research and the John F. Kennedy Trust.

A good deal of information in this database was collected from immigrants to the United States during the Great Famine (1845-1849). Between 1847 and 1854, 1.6 million Irish immigrated to the U.S., mostly arriving in New York, marking the first voluntary mass migration to the United States.

Listings Include:
- Name of immigrant
- Name of the ship
- Ports of origin and debarkation
- Ship's arrival date
- Immigrant's age, gender, and occupation
- Immigrant's country of origin, destination, and manifest ID number
- Village or town or origin - Purpose and mode of travel

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Ontario, 1869-1886 Marriage Index Volume 2

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This data set contains alphabetical listings of approximately 355,000 individuals who were married in Ontario, Canada between August 1869 and 1886. With this great resource — you'll find previously uncollected marriage records together in one place.

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Tithe Applotment Books of Ireland, 1823-1838

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A unique land survey taken to determine the amount of tax payable to the Church of Ireland by landholders, the Tithe Applotment Books collectively represent a virtual census for pre-Famine Ireland. Because the results of this land survey were originally compiled in nearly 2,000 hand-written volumes, this resource is known to genealogists as the Tithe Applotment Books. This database references the counties that make up present-day Northern Ireland: Counties Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, and Tyrone.

In the original enumeration, each landholder was recorded along with details such as townland, size of holding, land quality and types of crops. The amount of tithe payable by each landholder was based on all of these factors and calculated by a formula using the average price of wheat and oats from 1816-23.

Listings Include:- Name
- County
- Parish
- Townland
- Year of enumeration

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Baltimore Passenger and Immigration Lists Volume 2, 1851-1872

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This database details the arrivals of approximately 89,000 individuals who sailed to Baltimore in the nineteenth century. The information was extracted from National Archives Microfilm Series M255, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, 1820-1891. While the entire microfilm series spans 50 rolls, this Family Archive covers rolls 1 through 8 and includes individuals who arrived between September 2, 1820 and May 28, 1852.

Most Baltimore passenger lists were collected following the 1833 enactment of a Maryland state law that required passenger lists be submitted to the mayor upon a ship's arrival. The information collected on those passenger lists and preserved on this database can help you create a well-rounded picture of your ancestor's arrival in America.

As you know, it is often the little details that help bring your family history to life. Because of this, we included more than just the basic information available about a person on the actual microfilm. For example, you'll often learn the type of ship an individual sailed on. Types of ships include:

- Bark: A ship of three to five masts with the after mast fore-and-aft rigged.
- Brig: A two-masted square-rigged sailing ship.
- Galliot: A small galley propelled by sails and oars.
- Ketch: A large fore-and-aft rigged boat with two masts.
- Schooner: A fore-and-aft rigged sailing ship.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists: Baltimore, 1820-1850

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Naturalization Records: Philadelphia, 1789-1880

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With information on more than 113,000 immigrants from nearly 100 countries, this database will be a great resource for researchers whose family settled in Pennsylvania. Information compiled in this database was originally edited by P. William Filby and produced as a book volume called Philadelphia Naturalization Records. That book volume was compiled from an eleven-volume index originally completed by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) around 1940. That index is generally considered to be one of the most important documents in the American naturalization and immigration archive.

Listings Include:
- An individual's name
- Any alternate spellings or interpretations of that name
- The individual's country of former allegiance
- Date and location the individual filed a declaration of intention and/or oath of allegiance.

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Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871

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Follow your ancestors as they journey from Ireland to a new life! Touching on 46,000 Irish passengers who arrived in the United States and Canada, these records focus primarily on the 19th century.

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Sources for Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871:

Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743: A Transcription of the Report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced Emigration to America
by Frances McDonnell
These lists of about 2,000 felons and vagabonds forcibly transported from Ireland between 1735 and 1743 constitute one of the few known sources of Irish emigration to the New World in the 18th century.
Irish Passenger Lists, 1803-1806: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Ireland to America
by Brian Mitchell
Altogether, some 4,500 passengers are identified in the 109 sailings recorded in this transcription of the Hardwicke Papers, a rare official register of passengers leaving Irish ports. Most individuals are cited with their all-important place of residence, departing from the ports of Dublin, Belfast, Londonderry, and Newry and destined mainly for New York and Philadelphia. The Hardwicke lists, only fragments of which have ever appeared in print, now fill a significant gap in the records, since in many cases they will prove to be the only record of an ancestor's emigration to the U.S.
An Alphabetical Index to Ulster Emigration to Philadelphia, 1803-1850
by Raymond D. Adams
Based on U.S. Customs Passenger Lists, the manifests of the Cunard and Cooke shipping lines and other sources, this work provides you with a list of 3,200 emigrants from Londonderry to Philadelphia between 1803 and 1850. Each entry typically furnishes the name of the emigrant, his/her age, town and country of origin (where given), year of emigration, and name of ship.
Passengers from Ireland: Lists of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811 and 1817 (Transcribed from The Shamrock or Hibernian Chronicle)
by Donald M. Schlegel
The core of this work is a reproduction of about 5,150 Irish passenger listings that date from 1811 and 1815-1816 and were compiled by J. Dominick Hackett and Charles Montague Early for the 1930 and 1931 editions of The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society. Schlegel has corrected some errors and omissions that appeared in the original compilation, and has presented the lists in their original format so that family groupings are apparent. Grouped together following the passenger lists are a number of death notices and advertisements which may reference a person's place of origin in Ireland or date of immigration. In all, the names of 7,308 immigrants are included in this volume.
Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839: Lists of Emigrants Extracted from the Ordnance Survey Memoirs for Counties Londonderry and Antrim
by Brian Mitchell
These Antrim and Londonderry memoirs lists have been extracted, arranged under parish, and alphabetized. They identify the emigrant's destination and his place of origin in Ireland — key pieces of information for anyone tracing his Irish ancestry. In addition, the age, town and address, year of emigration, and religious denomination are given for the approximately 3,000 emigrants identified in this book.
Irish Emigration to New England Through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841-1849
by Daniel F. Johnson
St. John's port was a magnet for Irish immigration during the decade that culminated in the Great Famine, although a majority of these Irish immigrants eventually relocated to Boston or elsewhere in New England in order to rejoin their families. Since many of them arrived in Canada in a destitute or infirm condition, however, they were required to take temporary refuge in the alms and work houses, hospitals, and asylums of St. John. Many of the records of these institutions have survived, and with their help the author has created a surrogate record for some 7,000 persons who never appeared in the official passenger lists.
A List of Alien Passengers, Bonded from January 1, 1847, to January 1, 1851, for the Use of the Overseers of the Poor, in the Commonwealth
by J.B. Munroe
Prepared by the Superintendent for the city of Boston in 1851 and covering a four-year period, this alphabetical list includes a bonded passenger's date of arrival in Boston, name, age, and birth place, along with the name of vessel on which he sailed.
Emigrants from Ireland, 1847-1852: State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland
by Eilish Ellis
This work contains a history of the emigration scheme and a list of the emigrants from each estate with the following details: name, age, occupation, family relationships, date and place of departure, date and place of arrival in the U.S., and name of ship. Most of the emigrants arrived at the port of New York, while a handful disembarked in Quebec.
Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line
compiled under the direction of Brian Mitchell
These passenger lists, which cover the period of the Great Famine and its aftermath, identify the emigrants' actual places of residence, as well as their port of departure and nationality. Essentially business records, the lists were developed from the order books of two main passenger lines operating out of Londonderry: J. & J. Cooke (1847-67) and William McCorkell & Co. (1863-71). Both sets of records provide the emigrant's name, age, and address, and the name of the ship. The Cooke lists provide the ship's destination and year of sailing, while the McCorkell lists provide the date engaged and the scheduled sailing date. Altogether 27,495 passengers are identified.
Irish Emigrants in North America (in three parts)
by David Dobson
This work is a consolidated reprint of three pamphlets by David Dobson, and it endeavors to shed light on some 1,000 Irish men and women and their families who emigrated to North America between roughly 1775 and 1825. Each of the three groupings is arranged alphabetically by the emigrant's surname and, in the majority of cases, provides us with most of the following particulars: name, date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Ireland, reason for emigration, reason for emigration, place of disembarkation in North America, date of arrival, number of persons in the household, and the source of the information.

Passenger and Immigration Lists: Boston, 1821-1850

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Passenger lists are important primary sources of arrival data for the vast majority of immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century. With the single exception of federal census records, passenger lists are the largest, most continuous, and the most uniform body of population records for the entire country. While researching original passenger lists can often be tedious and difficult, this Family Archive makes finding your immigrant ancestors easier than ever. It contains alphabetical listings of approximately 161,000 individuals who arrived at the port of Boston, Massachusetts from foreign ports between 1821 and 1850...

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Land Records: AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI, 1790-1907

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This database contains approximately 1,645,000 records from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The records are often the only available source offering the identification of legal land descriptions and transfer of property ownership from the U.S. Government to private land owners. They show who obtained what land from the Federal Government, and when it was obtained. Source documents include homesteads, cash sales, warrants, private land claims, swamp lists, state selections, and railroad lists.

Listings Include:
- Patentee's name and Soundex code.
- State.
- Accession number (directly relates a document image to the original hard copy document).
- Document number (used to order a copy of the original record from the BLM).
- Date the deed was signed Land office that handled the transaction.
- Aliquot part reference Section Number, Block, Township, Range, and Meridian/Survey Area.
- Number of acres.
- Act/Treaty authorizing sale.

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Marriage Index: Michigan and Wisconsin, 1830-1900

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This database contains information on approximately 52,800 individuals married Wisconsin and 108,500 individuals married in Michigan. It brings together previously uncollected marriage records and gives you easy access to information that you would otherwise have to obtain at from local sources. Data included in this database was collected through the efforts of Jordan Dodd at Liahona Research.

Listings Include:- Name of each spouse.
- Marriage date
- County where the marriage was recorded.
- Where to find copies of your ancestor's original marriage record so that you can obtain even more detailed family history information.

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Marriage Index: Illinois, 1851-1900

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This database contains information on approximately 707,000 individuals who were married in Illinois between 1851 and 1900. It is a great resource because it brings together previously uncollected marriage records from fifty-eight Illinois counties...

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Marriage Index: Alabama, 1800-1900s

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This database contains information on approximately 179,000 individuals who were married in Alabama between 1800 and 1900. It offers information on marriages that took place before marriage licenses were required and brings together previously uncollected information from forty-one Alabama counties...

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How to Find a Birth, Marriage or Death Record in Pennsylvania.

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Finally, from Pennsylvania -- it's a whole new collection of birth, marriage and death records. A short overview of how to find a BMD in PA, the challenges, etc...

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Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600s-1800s
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vols. 1-39, 1650-1900s
East Pennsylvania, 1870 Census Index
West Pennsylvania, 1870 Census Index
Pennsylvania, 1850 Census Microfilm Records
Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600s-1800s
Land Records: Bucks and Lancaster Co., 1682-1825
Pennsylvania Family Histories #1, pre-1600 to 1900s
Pennsylvania Biographies and Genealogies, 1600s-1800s
Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s
Pennsylvania Family Histories #1, pre-1600 to 1900s
Pennsylvania Vital Records, 1700s-1800s
Church Records: Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, 1729-1881
Pennsylvania German Church Records, 1729-1870
Pennsylvania, 1740-1900 County and Family Histories
The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1740-1930
Immigrants to Pennsylvania, 1600s-1800s
Passenger and Immigration Lists: Philadelphia, 1800-1850
Naturalization Records: Philadelphia, 1789-1880

Marriage Index: North Carolina, 1851-1900

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Marriage indexes can save you research time by telling you that a particular marriage record containing your ancestor's name exists. With the information provided, you may be able to find a newspaper announcement, which may provide more details about the bride, groom, and their families.

Listings Include:
- Full names of both spouses.
- Date of the marriage.
- Township in which the marriage was recorded.
- Location of the Family History Library microfilm, microfiche, or book referencing the marriage.

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Marriage Index: Arkansas, 1850-1900

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This database contains information on approximately 287,000 individuals married in Arkansas. Because this database compiles and indexes marriage records collected at the county level, it makes it easier than ever to locate your family among local records.

Compared to another Arkansas marriage 1779-1992 index, This Database has more extensive and concentrated coverage of the entire state. It references 287,000 individuals from the years 1850-1900 while Arkansas marriage 1779-1992 index only has 154,000 individuals from a period spanning more than a 200 years.

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Marriage Index: Indiana, 1851-1900

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This database contains information on approximately 292,000 individuals who were married in Indiana between 1851 and 1900. It includes previously uncollected information from thirty-six Indiana counties.

Listings Include:- Name of each spouse.
- Marriage date Location of the marriage County where the marriage was recorded.
- Where to find copies of your ancestor's original marriage record so that you can obtain even more detailed family history information.

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Marriage Index: Mississippi and Florida, 1800-1900

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This database contains information on approximately 154,000 individuals who were married between 1800 and 1900 in Mississippi and 37,000 individuals who were married between 1823 and 1900 in Florida (191,000 individuals total). It brings together previously uncollected marriage records and gives you easy access to information that you would otherwise need to obtain from a county office.

Listings Include:- Name of each spouse.
- Marriage date Location of the marriage County where the marriage was recorded.
- Where to find copies of your ancestor's original marriage record so that you can obtain even more detailed family history information.

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Marriage Index: West Virginia, 1863-1900

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This database contains information on approximately 177,000 individuals who were married between 1863 and 1900 in select West Virginia counties. Fully indexed, it is a great resource because it brings together previously uncollected marriage records and gives you easy access to information that you would otherwise have to obtain from local sources.

Information was collected from the following West Virginia counties:
*Barbour *Jackson *Roane *Boone *Kanawha *Summers *Brooke *Lewis *Taylor *Calhoun *Marion *Tyler *Clay *Marshall *Upshur *Doddridge *Mason *Wayne *Fayette *Nicholas *Wetzel *Gilmer *Pleasants *Wirt *Greenbrier *Raleigh *Wyoming *Hampshire *Randolph *Harrison *Ritchie

Since all but three of West Virginia's counties were established prior to June 20, 1863 (when West Virginia was admitted to the Union), counties in existence prior to this date were governed by the same laws as other Virginia counties. In 1853, Virginia began requiring county clerks to keep marriage registers and issue marriage licenses. Individuals who applied for a license between May and June of 1863 may appear in Virginia records as well as West Virginia records. In rare cases, a marriage license may have been applied for in Virginia but recorded in West Virginia.

Listings Include:
- Name of each spouse.
- Marriage date
- County where the marriage was recorded.
- Where to find copies of your ancestor's original marriage record so that you can obtain even more detailed family history information.

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Researching Ireland at Home and Abroad

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Sometimes the hardest part of Irish research is actually deciding where to begin and at what point enough information has been gathered so that efforts can move into Irish records. But, the search for Irish origins is a combined research effort in the country where an immigrant settled, and in Irish records-preferably in that order. The biggest mistake a researcher can make when beginning Irish research is to "jump over the water" too quickly. If Irish records are examined prematurely, efforts can quickly come to a stand still... Read More

Marriage Index: New Jersey, 1680-1900

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This database brings together previously uncollected marriage records for approximately 179,000 individuals married in New Jersey between 1680 and 1900.

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