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17th Century Hollanders - Sketches of Seventeenth-Century Hollanders

Seventeenth-Century Persons Who Lived in Holland and North America: Genealogical and Historical Notes on Their Lives, Families and Activities. Original research projects by Cor Snabel and Elizabeth A. Johnson. Within these pages you will find articles on many persons from Holland and the neighboring countries near it. Many of these people came to the North American colonies in the 1600's, or had family members who did. Interesting information we would like to share here may include family and genealogical data on persons living on both sides of the Atlantic, and sometimes in Brazil or even in places in Eurpoe before they moved to Holland.

A History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850

A fascinating account of the Irish in America, including details of many of the distinguished men and families who impacted on the history of the country. The book covers such areas as the Irish in Barbadoes, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, etc., etc., as well as touching on military campaigns in Mexico. Also included are chapters on the United Irishmen in America, and the American response to the Irish Famine of the 1840s. The appendices contain

American Ethnic Studies Research Guide

The Yale University Library Research Guide in American Ethnic Studies is intended to help users research many aspects of ethnicity, race and culture in America.

Ancestry.com - Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 $

Original source: Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889.

Chiefs of Mission, Listed by Country

1778 to 2001. From the U.S. State Dept.

Chinese Immigration Records

A guide from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Federal Bureau of Prisons - Find an inmate

Online searchable database includes all federal inmates from 1982 to the present.

Founders Online

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. More than 174,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.

GenealogyMagazine.com - The Dutch Touch Upon America

An article from GenealogyMagazine.com, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG.

Geographical Index to the Tribes of the United States and Canada

JewishGen - American Jewish Year Book Obituary Index

Names of Over 3,000 Notable Jews Who Died Between 1948 and 1998.

JewishGen USA Database

A multiple database search facility which incorporates databases contributed by individual donors. The combined databases have more than 1.75 million entries.

Online County and Town Histories

This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

Principal Officers of the U.S. Department of State

ROMANI | An Anglo-American Romany Gypsy & Traveller Heritage Project

Romani is a project focused on the heritage of Romany Gypsies and Travellers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Slavery in the North

History of African-American slavery in the northern colonies & states.

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 Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands / De Atlantische wereld: Amerika en Nederland

Explores the history of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World-War-II period.

The Blood is Strong: The Scots in America

Blog helping you find your Scottish ancestors who came to America prior to the Revolution and after the Civil War ~ what brought them here, what migration paths they traveled, and where they settled.

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.