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The [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration United States Emigration and Immigration] Wiki article lists several important sources for finding information about immigrants to this country. These sources include many references to people who settled in North Carolina. [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] introduces the principles, research strategies, and additional record types you can use to identify an immigrant’s original hometown. {{Adoption NCGenWeb}}  
North Carolina’s treacherous coastline prevented significant immigration by sea. Most immigrants arrived at major northern ports such as New York, Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia. The [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration United States Emigration and Immigration] Wiki article lists several important sources for finding information about immigrants to this country. These sources include many references to people who settled in North Carolina. [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] introduces the principles, research strategies, and additional record types you can use to identify an immigrant’s original hometown. {{Adoption NCGenWeb}}  


=== People  ===
=== People  ===
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North Carolina did not attract heavy settlement after the Revolutionary War and lost much of its population in the westward movement to Tennessee, Illinois, and other new states and territories.  
North Carolina did not attract heavy settlement after the Revolutionary War and lost much of its population in the westward movement to Tennessee, Illinois, and other new states and territories.  
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=== Records  ===


*Clay, James W. ''North Carolina Atlas''. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1975. (Family History Library book {{FHL|975.6 E3c|disp=975.6 E3c}}; film {{FHL|1597810|film|disp=1597810}} item 2.) This atlas shows the formation of counties and the patterns of European settlement.
*Clay, James W. ''North Carolina Atlas''. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1975. (Family History Library book {{FHL|975.6 E3c|disp=975.6 E3c}}; film {{FHL|1597810|film|disp=1597810}} item 2.) This atlas shows the formation of counties and the patterns of European settlement.


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*United States. Bureau of Customs. ''Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820–1873''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M575. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1964. {{FHL|66154|film|disp=FHL films 830231 (first of 26)}} Incomplete lists of passengers for five minor ports in North Carolina: Beaufort, 1865; Edentown, 1820; New Berne, 1820–1865; Plymouth, 1820–1840; and Washington, 1820–1848.


=== Records  ===
:*Indexes to these minor ports lists<br>United States. Bureau of Customs. ''A Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports, 1820–1874''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M334. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1960. {{FHL|67478|item|disp=FHL films 418161–418348)}} A comprehensive list of about 140,000 immigrants to America from Britain is:


North Carolina’s treacherous coastline prevented significant immigration by sea. Most immigrants arrived at major northern ports such as New York, Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia. Learn more about these record collections at [[United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration|United States Emigration and Immigration]]  
*Newsome, Albert Ray, ''Records of Emigrants from England and Scotland to North Carolina, 1774-1775'' (Raleigh, NC : State Dept. of Archives and History, 1962) {{WorldCat|12182612|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}};  {{FHL|170905|item|disp=FHL book 975.6 A1 no. 30}} Digital version available [https://dcms.lds.org/view/action/ieViewer.do?from_proxy=true&dps_pid=IE109480&dps_dvs=1339026712594~722&dps_pid=IE109480&change_lng=en online.]  


*United States. Bureau of Customs. ''Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820–1873''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M575. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1964.
*''Wayne County, Indiana, settlers from North and South Carolina,'' {{FHL|156490|item|disp=FHL film 908530 item 6; book 977.263 H2w}}
{{FHL|66154|film|disp=FHL films 830231 (first of 26)}}  Incomplete lists of passengers for five minor ports in North Carolina: Beaufort, 1865; Edentown, 1820; New Berne, 1820–1865; Plymouth, 1820–1840; and Washington, 1820–1848.
:*Indexes to these minor ports lists<br>United States. Bureau of Customs. ''A Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports, 1820–1874''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M334. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1960. {{FHL|67478|item|disp=FHL films 418161–418348)}} A comprehensive list of about 140,000 immigrants to America from Britain is:


*Meyer, Duane, ''The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776'' (Chapel Hill, NC : University of NC Press, [1966]) {{WorldCat|466801|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|178202|item|disp=FHL book 975.6 F2me}}


*Johnston, Hugh B., ''They Moved Away : North Carolinians Who Went to Other States'' (Wilson, NC : Wilson County Genealogical Society (NC), c1997) {{WorldCat|38214181|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}};  {{FHL|692205|item|disp=FHL book 975.6 W2j}}


North Carolina passenger lists and other lists of immigrants can be found in the Family History Library Catalog by using a Place Search under:  
*Eaker, Lorena Shell, ''German speaking people west of the Catawba River in North Carolina, 1750-1800 : and some émigrés participation in early settlement of Southeast Missouri'' (Franklin, NC : Genealogy Pub. Service, c1994) {{WorldCat|31738564|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|694562|item|disp=FHL book 975.6 W2e)}}


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*Tyler H. Blethen and Curtis W. Wood, Jr. ''From Ulster to Carolina : the Migration of the Scotch-Irish to southwestern North Carolina'' (Raleigh, NC : North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, c1998) {{WorldCat|39557158|At various libraries (WorldCat)}};  {{FHL|742097|item|disp=FHL book 975.6 F2bL}}


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*North Carolina passenger lists and other lists of immigrants can be found in the Family History Library Catalog by using a Place Search under:  


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=== Migration  ===
=== Migration  ===
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