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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.

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries

The Scotch-Irish in America

Book by Henry Jones Ford. A truly fascinating account of the (mainly) Ulster Presbyterians who emigrated to America in the 18th century. As well as useful genealogical information contained therein, the book provides a wealth of detail on the social and political conditions that the immigrants faced during that period. An extensive index is included which provides a useful means of locating names easily.

Welsh American Index

A website to help Americans of Welsh extraction to locate their ancestors. The site's main feature is an index to Welsh-language obituaries of Americans, free to search and pay for full details. There are also features on the Welsh in the American Civil War and in the Gold Rushes.