Immigration & Naturalization » General Resources

Manifest Extract Forms

Blank forms for extracting information from a List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the US Immigration Office at Port of Arrival.

Married to An Alien

Article a time when US born women lost their citizenship through marriage to non-citizens.

Migration Institutions

The Migration Museum Web Community aims to offer a web interface to assist the growth of the migration museum network, to support the activities of migration museums and to facilitate the interactions among them. Includes links to partner museums in a variety of countries.

Migrations Project

Moving Here - 200 Years of Migration to England

Online searchable database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years.

Now What? Expert Answers to your Genealogy questions - Searching for Early Immigrants

Tips for finding immigrant ancestors.

Olive Tree Genealogy: USA Naturalization Records

Primer of Emigration, Immigration, etc.

An article from the Polish Genealogical Society of America.

Roland Marchand's Slide Collection - Immigration

Scanned photographs from various phases of the immigration process and society's views of the new arrivals.

RootsWeb Guide Lesson 15 - Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors

RootsWeb Guide Lesson 16 - Naturalization Records

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From Family Tree Magazine.

The Great Migration

The goal of the Great Migration Study Project is to create comprehensive biographical and genealogical accounts of all immigrants to New England from 1620 to 1643, from the arrival of the Mayflower to the decline of immigration resulting from the beginning of the Civil War in England. The project was conceived by Robert Charles Anderson who now serves as Director of the Great Migration Study Project.

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy - Ancestry.com Wiki

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles.

Tracing an Ancestor Who Was an Immigrant

Tracing Immigrant Origins

From FamilySearch.org.

USA & Canadian Naturalization & Citizenship Records

WorldVitalRecords.com - Search All Immigration And Travel Databases $

An inexpensive, growing set of pay-for-use databases. Including vital records, court records, military records, and an extensive collection of newspapers.