Georgia Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

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Colonial settlers of [[Georgia Genealogy (state)|Georgia]] generally came from the Carolinas, from [[Virginia Genealogy|Virginia]], or directly from [[England Genealogy|England]] and [[Scotland Genealogy|Scotland]]. The first large group of immigrants came from the British Isles to the Savannah area with James Oglethorpe in 1733. Though it was designed to be a penal colony, most English convicts were transported to [[Virginia Genealogy|Virginia]] and [[Maryland Genealogy|Maryland]], rather than Georgia.<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''British Emigrants in Bondage;'' E. Roger Ekirch, ''Bound for America.''</ref>  

Between 1802 and 1820 thousands of Americans moved to Georgia seeking free or inexpensive land. The Creek and Cherokee Indians were removed from the state before 1840.  

Barlow published abstracts of some Virginians migrating to Georgia:  

*Barlow, Lundie W. "Some Virginia Settlers of Georgia, 1773-1798," ''The Virginia Genealogist'', Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1958):19-27. Digital version at [http://www.americanancestors.org/Search.aspx?Ca=098&Da=285 American Ancestors] ($).

Scattered records of colonial immigrants survive and have usually been published.  

Records of ethnic groups including Indians, Quakers, and Salzburgers are listed in the place search of the FamilySearch Catalog under the subject heading GEORGIA - MINORITIES.  

Though they do not include names of passengers, records kept by the Colonial Office and stored at [[England The National Archives|The National Archives]] (Kew, England), document ships' arrivals and departures from Georgia ports between 1752 and 1767. FamilySearch microfilmed these records. They are useful for learning about the history of ships entering the colony:  

British Naval Office Shipping Lists, 1678-1825, have been digitized by [http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/collection.php?cid=9781851173181&pid=&did=&cat=&sid=BOABRAW&date_option=equal British Online Archives] (site requires subscription). Names of passengers are not included.

The Family History Library at [https://www.familysearch.org/ www.familysearch.org] and the National Archives at [http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/index.html have passenger lists] for Savannah for portions of the years 1820 to 1826, 1831, 1847 to 1851, and 1866 to 1867 {{FHL|66154|item|disp=FHL film 830246.}}  

The library also has Savannah lists for 1906 to 1945 {{FHL|341263|item|disp=FHL films 1375955 and 1414793–95.}}  

Records about many families who passed through Georgia on their way west are included in:  

Free native-born Georgians, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:<ref name="Lynch">These statistics do not account for the large number of Georgians who had migrated and died before the year 1850. See: William O. Lynch, "The Westward Flow of Southern Colonists before 1861," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug. 1943):303-327. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191319 JSTOR] ($).</ref>  

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