Genealogy 3 rd WEEK. Class #199. Immigrate Emigrate Publications

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1 Genealogy 3 rd WEEK. Class #199 Immigrate Emigrate Publications When How Why

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8 EMIGRATE ~ vs ~ IMMIGRATE Each had their own specific reasons for coming to America and their own unique voyage. Yet, many shared basic experiences on the trip across the ocean. Preparing to Emigrate leaving all behind~forever - Living Conditions on Board [until 1850s, sailing ships, =43 days- Steamships, by end of 1870s, voyage = days. Some continued sailing ships for nearly 30 yrs.=cheaper fares- last sailing ship left Hamburg 1879]- Dangers at Sea- mundane food and cramped sleeping; shipwreck; disease- Typhus, cholera, and dysentery; Arriving in the U.S. - Scores crowded through doors, hundreds each day, thousands each month until Ellis Island opened -- The Entryway at Castle Garden

9 UNDERSTANDING YOUR ANCESTORS Try this site to go to the immigration site you need.. /ar/portsrecords.aspx

10 PASSENGER LIST..possibilities sa_pa.shtml

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12 CASTLE GARDEN Castle Garden didn t begin its life as an entryway; the building s original purpose was to keep people out~ it was a fort in 1807; war brewed with Britain. Its location in lower Manhattan, by the water s edge, proved ideal for military fortifications. After the threat of war died away, the remodeled fort functioned as an entertainment center for three decades!!! 1855 Castle Garden became America s first Immigrant station.. August Castle Garden opened previously in New York, where the bulk of U.S. immigrants landed, ships arrived in any number of scattered docks; very dangerous conditions existed: It was well for him if, after having been robbed of all he had, he was not beaten to death -- The Board of Emigration Commissioners / New York decided that a centralized landing depot would provide the best solution; Board declared the benefits of Castle Garden: First. To the emigrants In the greater safety of their effects. also provided other services new arrivals; Officials registered immigrants, exchanged money at a fair price, sold train tickets, assisted in places to stay, helped locate jobs. Castle Garden s benefits weren t limited to immigrants; Doctors examined passengers, reducing contagious diseases spread; officials kept more complete statistics something that would become more important as the U.S. s open-door policy came under scrutiny later in the century.

13 CASTLE GARDENS legacy Castle Garden s significance extended beyond tickets; medical exams; jobs ~ While most immigrants stayed briefly they often remembered it throughout their lives. One woman later described her feelings, Farewell Castle Garden! I have met with nothing on the continent of Europe that can at all compare with the spectacle thou presented, and the benevolence and benefits that thou bestowed sacred asylum of the emigrant While nearly 2.6 million immigrants came to the U.S. in the 1850s when Castle Garden opened, by the 1880s the number had doubled to 5.2 million. Two out of three of those landed at Castle Garden. New laws and restrictions made processing the immigrants more time consuming and costly. The growing number of reports of abuse added to the problems. In 1883, the New York governor announced, the present management of this very important department is a scandal and a reproach to civilization. An investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department followed. The results confirmed what everyone already knew. Castle Garden could no longer effectively handle the immigrants pouring through its doors. The federal government decided that the matter could no longer be left in the hands of the states. They were going to take over processing immigrants and find a new place to do it. The last immigrants to enter the New World through Castle Garden did so on April 18, When Ellis Island opened on January 1, 1892, more than the landing point had changed. The dominant ethnic backgrounds of the immigrants had gradually shifted and with it the approach to immigration. While Castle Garden had declared its first benefit to the immigrants, the federal agents at Ellis Island made sifting out and returning home unwanted entrants one of their top priorities. 13

14 CASTLE GARDEN today. But Castle Garden largely remains a project for the future. The building now functions as little more than a ticket booth for Ellis Island its role in history unknown to most of the people who stream through its doors. A long road lies ahead before Castle Garden can reclaim its place in history.

15 ELLIS ISLAND. peak years from 1892 and But our Ellis Island Archives expand beyond those years up to 1957 and contain more than 51 million arrival records. These historical manifests have been transcribed into this vast digitized archive thanks to the generous efforts of the volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

16 Historical Note: It is known from other reports that Annie was given a $10 gold coin, not a bill. Although the manifest states she was 13, and news reports state she was 14 upon her departure from Queenstown and celebrated her 15th birthday the very day she was processed at Ellis Island, in fact Annie was 17 and her birthday was in May.

17 OTHER POSSIBILITIES Olive Tree Genealogy, created by Lorine in February 1996 was started to bring genealogists FREE genealogy records. Olive Tree Genealogy has more than 1,900 pages of free genealogy records to help you find your brick-wall ancestors and build your family tree Step 1: First search for your immigrant ancestor in the five major ports of arrival - New York New York, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Baltimore Maryland, Boston Massachusetts and New Orleans Louisiana Step 2: Try- smaller ports of arrival: Virginia, Connecticut, Delaware, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maine, Rhode Island, Florida, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Michigan, Alaska, California, Hawaii and Washington Step 3: Still nothing: Try a Canadian Port of Arrival and the Canada-U.S. border crossing records (Saint Albans Lists).

18 FRENCH EMIGRATION Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, Description Passenger lists of arrivals in New Orleans, Louisiana. This collection corresponds to two NARA publications: M259: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, and T905: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, Some arrival dates are not represented in the data. At present, this collection does not include NARA roll 142 from T905 containing arrivals for 1 Oct 1931 to 31 Dec 1931

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21 Swedish Immigration Research Center.png Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in the Denkman Memorial Library, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois Swedish mass-immigration to the U.S. began in earnest in the mid 1840s, when a number of pioneers, often moving as groups, established a migration tradition between certain sending areas in Sweden and particular receiving locales in the United States. Examples of colonies founded by these groups include settlements in western Illinois, Iowa, central Texas, southern Minnesota, and western Wisconsin.

22 Tracing Your Swedish Roots- These records are in Swedish~~For best results, you should search using Swedish words and location spellings. Svenska English Svenska institutet Svenska institutet i Paris Svenska språket Sharing Sweden sweden.se Study in Sweden Sök Om SIKontakta osskalendariumverksamhet Välkommen till Svenska institutet!

23 Emigration From Germany The First Germans Franz Daniel Pastorius has been credited with officially founding the first permanent German settlement in America in Germantown, Pennsylvania in He arrived in the port in Philadelphia; August 20, along with a handful of other immigrants. The group was joined by thirteen other families several months later. Over the next couple years, others trickled in. Nazi takeover in 1933, over 500,000 Jews in Germany. 1 st, Nazis encouraged emigration; few restrictions on property Jews could take with them. Soon German government imposed increased emigration taxes; $ which could be transferred abroad. By November, 1938, about 150,000 Jews (30% of the original population) had left Germany. After Kristallnacht, an additional 150,000 left. United States 63,000 Palestine 55,000 Great Britain 40,000 France 30,000 Argentina 25,000 Brazil 13,000 South Africa 5,500 Italy 5,000 Other European 25,000 Other S American 20,000 Far Eastern Co 15,000 Other 8,000 Total 304,500

24 Portugal Emigration Portugal long been nation whose people emigrated; first occurred in 15 th /16 th centuries time of the great explorations and 1966, Portugal lost estimated 2.6 million to emigration, more than any West European country, except Ireland. The main motive for emigration, at least in modern times, was economic. Portugal among poorest countries in Europe. For centuries mainly men emigrated; at turn of century, about 80 percent of emigrants were male. Even in the 1980s, male emigrants outnumbered female emigrants two to one. Portuguese males traditionally emigrated for several years while women and children remained behind. For several decades after World War II, women made up 40 percent of emigrants; latter half of the 19 th century; much of the 20 th century, greatest number of emigrants went to the Western Hemisphere. The Americas seen as offering hope, jobs, land, a chance to start fresh. Between 1864 and 1974, the Americas received approximately 50 percent of all Portuguese emigration.

25 The PGSA Mailing Address: PGSA -984 N. Milwaukee Ave. -Chicago, IL The Polish Genealogical Society of America, headquarters -Chicago, founded/ incorporated in Illinois- August 23, The Society exists as a national 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization to collect, disseminate and preserve information on Polish / Polish-American family history; help its members use that information in their own research. The Society is open to anyone doing research within borders of old Commonwealth of Poland. It attempts to assist members in doing their own genealogical research by providing books, newsletters, bulletins, printed information, regular Society meetings, and an annual workshop. With 2000 members in all of the United States and ten countries around the world, the Society also encourages its members to communicate with each other and share leads, research sources, and any other information that may prove mutually beneficial.

26 Italian Genealogical Group-- Attn: Mary Anne Yenoli, Treasurer 212 East 3rd Street

27 Step 1. Identify What You Know about the Immigrant to successfully determine an immigrant's place of origin, you need to learn some minimum facts about him or her. This will help you select record types to search and identify the immigrant in those records. Additional information can also be helpful. A name, date, place, relative maybe Step 2. Decide What You Want to Learn

28 Step 2. Decide What You Want to Learn The primary goal is to find the immigrant's place of origin. With the place of origin you can begin using records from the hometown to extend the immigrant's ancestry or pursue other research goals. If you do not yet have enough information to find the place of origin, choose one of the secondary goals below. Secondary Goals- dates, places, ships, others traveling w/; country of origin; variations in name

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