Immigration, Emigration & Migration » Libraries, Archives & Museums

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• Archives New Zealand. Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga - Research Guides - Migration

  Learn how to find records about immigration – including passenger lists, refugee files and immigrant information.

• Center for Migration Studies

  New York.

• Forschungsstelle Deutsche Auswanderer in den USA - DAUSA

  Oldenburg, Germany. Research center at the Carl von Ossietzky Universit

• Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - Utvandring - Emigration

  Norway.

• 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.

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Collections

  The collections of Historical Society of Pennsylvania range from genealogical and family papers to business and organizational records to collections of items such as photographs, postcards, sheet music, menus, and trade cards. HSP's library contains a wealth of published material, including books, pamphlets, serials, and newspapers.

• Immigrant-institutet

  Sweden. Immigrant Institute in Bor

• Immigration - Research Collections in American Immigration

• Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA) - University of Minnesota

  An international resource on American immigration and ethnic history. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Immigration Museum

  Melbourne, Australia.

• Institute of Migration - Siirtolaisuusinstituutti

  Turku, Finland.

  • Emigrant Register

    400,000 entries from passenger and passport records.

• Maryland Immigration Digital Library

• Maryland State Archives Immigration and Naturalization

• Michiganology - Naturalization

  Indexes to naturalization records in the State Archives of Michigan. Includes online indexes for selected counties.

• Museum of Tolerance - Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves

  Los Angeles, California. Exhibit on the family & personal histories of several noted Americans including Maya Angelou, Billy Crystal, Carlos Santana & Joe Torre.

• NARA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

  • Access to Archival Databases (AAD)

    • Genealogy/ Personal History

    • Immigrants

      Includes Records for Passengers Who Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine. These materials identify 604,596 persons who arrived in the Port of New York, 1846-1851, and the ships on which they arrived. Approximately 70 percent of the passenger records list Ireland as the native country.

  • Resources for Genealogists

    • Genealogical Resources at the National Archives

    • Genealogy Research Topics

    • Immigration Records (Ship Passenger Arrival Records and Land Border Entries)

    • Immigration Records (Ship Passenger Arrival Records)

• National Records of Scotland - Research Guide - Emigration Records

• Naturalization and Related Records

  At the Connecticut State Library.

• Norsk Utvandermuseum / The Norwegian Emigrant Museum

• Paso al Norte Immigration History Museum

  El Paso, Texas. Preserves the history of El Paso as the Ellis Island of the Southwest.