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GenealogyMagazine.com - Belgian Migrations: Walloons Arrived Early in America

'If your roots go back to the early settlements in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania or the Middle Atlantic States you may have Walloons

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Immigration to the US, 1789-1930

A web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 | Harvard Library

From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program.

Immigration to the US, Immigration, Railroads, and the West

From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program.

JewishGen - Manifest Markings - Board of Special Inquiry

To better understand the process that created Lists of Aliens Held for Special Inquiry (Board of Special Inquiry, or BSI), follow the case of one Roumanian Jewish immigrant and his family who were held for a hearing.

JewishGen - Manifest Markings - Record of Detained Aliens

Beginning in 1903, at New York (Ellis Island), new forms came to be filed with each manifest and bound in the manifest volumes. One of these is the list or Record of Detained Aliens. Information on the record helps to clarify why a given immigrant was detained, how long they remained in detention, and how the case was resolved.

List of Canada

Migrants-FC : Site Migrants

Immigrants to the United States from France. This site is in English, free to use and no registration required.

NARA Access to Archival Databases (AAD) - Germans to America Passenger Data File, 1850 - 1897

National Dialogues on Immigration

Beginning in January 2014, twenty museums and historic sites across the United States launched the National Dialogues on Immigration Project: a bold, new public initiative to use historical perspective to foster dialogue on immigration issues among people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds through visceral encounters with the past. Continuing throughout 2015, this cross-regional series is designed to spark a new national conversation on critical immigration themes of Citizenship and American Identity, Restrictions and Legality, Borders and Freedom of Movement, and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

NaturalizationRecords.com - American Passport Records & Applications

Search for your ancestors in free Naturalization Records in U.S.A. and Canada. Find Declarations of Intent, First Papers, Alien Registrations, Passport Applications, Naturalization Petitions and Citizenship Certificates.

Pilgrim Ship Lists By Date

Pilgrim Ship Lists from the early 1600's, from England to America.

Price & Associates: Immigrant Servants Database Updated

The Immigrant Servants Database is a project designed to help Americans trace the European origins of their colonial ancestors. It is predicted that over 100,000 immigrant servants (indentured servants, convict servants, and redemptioners) will be identified.

St. Albans Lists FAQ

St. Albans Lists are lists of immigrants who crossed the border from Canada into the U.S. between 1895 and 1954. This site provides links to reel numbers (NARA and LDS) and explains how to obtain the reels.

Swedish America Heritage Online

The purpose of this website is for educational and historical research. It digitally preserves the genealogy data and images of Swedish American emigrants, their ancestors and descendants. If you find a match on our data base with one of your ancestors, please assist us by becoming a registered user and update the appropriate branch that includes your family. There is no fee for this service.

The Flemish American

Dedicated to chronicling and recording the contributions of the Flemish diaspora to the Americas and the World. Natuurlijk, from the viewpoint of an avowed and died-in-the-wool Flemish American.

The Irish in America

John Francis Maguire, founder of The Cork Examiner, undertook a six month tour of Canada and the United States in 1867 to discover the condition and extent of the Irish in the New World. `The Irish in America', the product of his findings, provides a fascinating insight into the lives of Irish immigrants in the North American continent during the Nineteenth-century. Despite parts being anecdotal, and his opinions and conclusions perhaps sometimes a little coloured by his obviously devout faith (Pope Pius IX made him a knight commander of St. gregory), the book is nevetheless a mine of information on the social history of the time. From the fever sheds of Grosse Isle to the New York tenements and the plains of California, Maguire describes the lot of the emigrant from Ireland. He also maps the progress of the Catholic Church in the United States, showing how the religious animosities from the `old country' were pursued in the new. A full chapter is devoted to the Irish in the American Civil War, and the Appendix includes information for emigrants and some relevant U.S. census statistics.

USCIS - Refugee Timeline

USCIS began overseeing refugee admissions to the U.S. when it began operations on March 1, 2003. Before then, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) administered refugee admissions. This timeline traces the major events and policies that affected refugee admissions under the INS and its predecessor agencies, from 1891 to 2003.