In 1819 the Steerage Act was enacted in part to regulate overcrowding on ships. It required "Customs Manifests" or "Customs Passenger Lists" be submitted to the customs collector at the port of arrival. These records have interesting details for family historians, including details like passenger ...
Public and private records were collected, including passenger lists, newspapers, church records, land deeds, indenture records, and oaths of allegiance. Sources for this index: The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612–1783 The Original Scots Colonists Of Early America, Su...
Founded in 2000 by Paul K. Gjenvick, MAS, archivist, and curator, the GG Archives has received numerous awards for our outstanding services. We are proud to offer a wide range of high-resolution images of historical documents dating from the 1800s to 1954, including passenger lists, brochure...
Founded in 2000 by Paul K. Gjenvick, MAS, archivist, and curator, the GG Archives has received numerous awards for our outstanding services. We are proud to offer a wide range of high-resolution images of historical documents dating from the 1800s to 1954, including passenger lists, brochure...
If you check with the Family History Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, they can help you. They have all the records of people coming to this country. They have the ships passenger lists, who came, who they came with, how old everyone was, etc. They have baptism records, marriage records...
Improved transportation facilitated by steam passenger liners, allowed people to move back and forth across the Atlantic, yielding a two-way migration. The Norwegian Bureau of Statistics has estimated that about 25 percent of the immigrants to North America between 1881 and 1930 have resettled in ...