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==== French Immigrants ==== | ==== French Immigrants ==== | ||
Huguenots came in 1700. Their settlement, in [[King William Parish, Virginia|King William Parish]], near Richmond on the James River, was known as Manakin Town.<ref>"Manakin Town: The French Huguenot Settlement in Virginia 1700-ca. 1750," ''National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox. Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763,'' http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/frenchvirginia.pdf, accessed 23 June 2012.</ref> They and many of their descendants lived in [[Henrico County, Virginia|Henrico]], [[Goochland County, Virginia|Goochland]], [[Cumberland County, Virginia|Cumberland]], and [[Powhatan County, Virginia|Powhatan]] counties. | Huguenots came in 1700. Their settlement, in [[King William Parish, Virginia|King William Parish]], near Richmond on the James River, was known as Manakin Town.<ref>"Manakin Town: The French Huguenot Settlement in Virginia 1700-ca. 1750," ''National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox. Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763,'' http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/frenchvirginia.pdf, accessed 23 June 2012.</ref> They and many of their descendants lived in [[Henrico County, Virginia|Henrico]], [[Goochland County, Virginia|Goochland]], [[Cumberland County, Virginia|Cumberland]], and [[Powhatan County, Virginia|Powhatan]] counties. | ||
==Immigration Records== | |||
'''Immigration''' refers to people coming into a country. '''Emigration''' refers to people leaving a country to go to another. Immigration records usually take the form of ship's '''passenger lists''' collected at the port of entry. See [[Maryland Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | |||
===What can I find in them?=== | |||
====[[Maryland Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]==== | |||
*'''Before 1820''' - Passenger lists before 1820 included '''name, departure information and arrival details'''. The names of wives and children were often not included. | |||
*'''1820-1891''' - Customs Passenger Lists between 1820 and 1891 asked for '''each immigrant’s name, their age, their sex, their occupation, and their country of origin''', but not the city or town of origin. | |||
*'''1891-1954''' - Information given on passenger lists from 1891 to 1954 included: | |||
**name, age, sex, | |||
**nationality, occupation, marital status, | |||
**last residence, final destination in the U.S., | |||
**whether they had been to the U.S. before (and if so, when, where and how long), | |||
**if joining a relative, who this person was, where they lived, and their relationship, | |||
**whether able to read and write, | |||
**whether in possession of a train ticket to their final destination, who paid for the passage, | |||
**amount of money the immigrant had in their possession, | |||
**whether the passenger had ever been in prison, a poorhouse, or in an institution for the insane, | |||
**whether the passenger was a polygamist, | |||
**and immigrant's state of health. | |||
*'''1906--''' - In 1906, the '''physical description and place of birth''' were included, and a year later, the '''name and address of the passenger’s closest living relative in the country of origin''' was included. | |||
====[[Maryland Emigration and Immigration#Passport Records Online|Information in Passports]] ==== | |||
Over the years, passports and passport applications contained different amounts of information about the passport applicant. The first passports that are available begin in 1795. These usually contained the individual's name, description of individual, and age. More information was required on later passport applications, such as: | |||
*Birthplace | |||
*Birth date | |||
*Naturalization information | |||
*Arrival information, if foreign born | |||
== In-Country Immigration == | == In-Country Immigration == | ||