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Link - Excerpted from "The Source: $A Guidebook of American Genealogy$," edited by Loretto D. Szucs and Sandra H. Luebking, Chapter 13, 'Immigration: Finding Immigrant Origins' by Kory L. Meyerink and Loretto Dennis Szucs:
1707: A new era of Scottish migration began as a result of the Act of Union between England and Scotland. Scots settled in colonial seaports. Lowland artisans and laborers left Glasgow to become indentured servants in tobacco colonies and New York.
1709: In the wake of devastation caused by wars of Louis XIV, German Palatines settled in the Hudson Valley and Pennsylvania.
1717: The English Parliament legalized transportation to American colonies as punishment; contractors began regular shipments from jails, mostly to Virginia and Maryland.
1718: Discontent with the land system: absentee landlords, high rents, and short leases in the homeland motivated large numbers of Scotch-Irish to emigrate. Most settled first in New England, then in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1730: Germans and Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania colonized Virginia valley and the Carolina back-country.
1732: James Oglethorpe settled Georgia as a buffer against Spanish and French attack, as a producer of raw silk, and as a haven for imprisoned debtors.
1740: The English Parliament enacted the Naturalization Act, which conferred British citizenship on alien colonial immigrants in an attempt to encourage Jewish immigration.
1745: Scottish rebels were transported to America after a Jacobite attempt to put Stuarts back on the throne failed.
1755: French Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia on suspicion of disloyalty. The survivors settled in Louisiana.
1771-73: Severe crop failure and depression in the Ulster linen trade brought a new influx of Scotch-Irish to the American colonies.
1775: The outbreak of hostilities in American colonies caused the British government to suspend emigration.
1783: The revolutionary war ended with the Treaty of Paris. Immigration to America resumed, with especially large numbers of Scotch-Irish.
1789: The outbreak of the French Revolution prompted the emigration of aristocrats and royalist sympathizers.
1790: The first federal activity in an area previously under the control of the individual colonies: An act of 26 March 1790 attempted to establish a uniform rule for naturalization by setting the residence requirement at two years. Children of naturalized citizens were considered to be citizens (1 Stat.103).
1791: After a slave revolt in Santo Domingo, 10,000 to 20,000 French exiles took refuge in
the United States, principally in towns on the Atlantic seaboard.1793: As a result of the French Revolution, Girondists and Jacobins threatened by guillotine fled to the United States.
1795: Provisions of a naturalization act of 29 January 1795 included the following: free white aliens of good moral character; five-year residency with one year in state; declaration of intention to be filed after two years; petition to be filed three years after the declaration (1 Stat. 414).
1798: An unsuccessful Irish rebellion sent rebels to the United States. Distressed artisans,yeoman farmers, and agricultural laborers affected by bad harvests and low prices joined the rebels in emigrating. U.S. Alien and Sedition Acts gave the president powers to seize and expel resident aliens suspected of engaging in subversive activities. Naturalization requirements were changed to require fourteen years' residency; the declaration of intention was to be filed five years before citizenship (1 Stat. 566). Aliens considered to be dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States were to be removed; passenger lists were to be given to the collector of customs (1 Stat. 570).
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Link - Adlers Ship Directory presented by The Gross-Steinberg Family Tree ~ "The book states that it covers 1899-1929 but it really only covers 1899-1905, and 1927-1929. It also has useful info on ship routes. I am now out of copies, but I can do a look-up if you'd like." Book Info: Adler's Directory; a compilation of passenger steamships sailing from European ports and arriving in the Eastern ports of the United States from 1899-1929 inclusive. Publisher: New York City, Steamship Directory Publishers [1940]
Link - Belgium Area Migration ~ Belgium Roots Project
Link - Belgium Immigrants ~ Belgium Roots ProjectLink - German and American Sources for German Emigration to America
Link - Migration Charts ~ AAG International Migration Research
Link - Morton Allen Directory
~ SEARCH Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore Steamship Arrivals 1890-1930
Book Info: Morton Allen Directory of European passenger steamship arrivals; for the years 1890 to 1930 at the port of New York and for the years 1904 to 1926 at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore. Publisher: New York: Immigration Information Bureau, Inc. [c1930]Link - Naturalization Records Message Board at FamilyHistory.com
NARA (USA National Archives & Records Administration)
Link - NARA ~ The Genealogy Page
Link - NARA ~ Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals ~ Select Catalog of Microfilm Publications Link - O.M.I.I. Genealogy Project/Kidron Heritage Center ~ Provides access to 3 databases with over 375,000 primarily Swiss Mennonite or German Amish descendants and information about the Kidron, Ohio Heritage Center and the Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois (OMII) Genealogy Project.
Link - Ships Arriving U.S. from Europe ~ cimorelli.com ~ CIMO - Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online
Link - U.S. Customs Service
Available from many locations: NARA, FHL, State Libraries, etc.:
Records ... indexed from 1853-1899; Passenger Lists ... from 1820-1903 ~ "Quarterly Abstracts" ... from 1820-1875.Link - USINS (United States Immigration and Naturalization Service)
Available from many locations: NARA, FHL, State Libraries, etc.:
Records ... indexed from 1900-1952 ~ Passenger Lists ... from 1903-1945.
Link - Genealogy Page
Link - INS History, Genealogy & Education Page
Link - Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940, by Marian L. Smith
Link - Download form G-639 Form G-639 for Naturalizations that occurred after 27 September 1906
Link - Request form G-639 by USMail
Immigrants/Emigrants : U.S.A. Arrivals
Link - American Plantations & Colonies ~ Genealogy - Families, Ships & Settlements
Link - American Plantations & Colonies ~ Ship Index ~ Ships to America
Link or Link - CIMO (Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online) ~ complete Morton Allan Directory of Ship Arrivals)
Link - FEEFHS (Federation of East European Family History Societies)
Link - Finding Arrival Passenger Lists 1820 to the 1940s at US ports from Europe-listings of all the major indexes
for the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and Galveston. Boston &
Galveston are covered in their own separate webpages. These listings include the Family History Library
nd US National Archives (NARA) microfilm catalog numbers for all the available indexes for those ports.
Books and CD-Roms are also listed. I hope you find this webpage useful in finding your immigrant ancestor(s)
in the passenger arrival records in the US Belgium, From
Link - du Bois ~ Ships to U.S.A.
Link - Passengers to U.S.A. ~ Belgium Roots Project
Link - Belgian Immigration ~ Belgium Roots Project
Link - Dutch Emigration Trilogy Luxembourg : Medernach, From
Link - People who emigrated to America from Medernach ~ Lait vun Medernach an AmerikaHuguenot
Link - Huguenot History
Link - Huguenot Refugees ~ Passenger Lists
Mary and Ann, August 12, 1700, Virginia, James City
Peter and Anthony ~ London to James River in Virginia, being French Refugees
imbarqued in the ship ye Peter and Anthony, Galley of London,
Daniel Perreau Commander (viz't) 20th of Sept. 1700
Link - On the Trail of Our Ancestors
Link - Shipping, Emigration, Passengers by Paynter
Link - The CompassVirginia USA, To
Link - Mariners' Museum, Newport News VA
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