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*Many overseas immigrants to Montana came through the port of New York or other East Coast ports. | *Many overseas immigrants to Montana came through the port of New York or other East Coast ports. | ||
==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 [[Montana Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | |||
===What can I find in them?=== | |||
====[[Montana 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. | |||
====[[Montana 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 Migration== | ==In-Country Migration== | ||
*In the 1860s, many gold seekers took '''steamboats from Saint Louis to Fort Benton, Montana, where they joined the Mullan Wagon Road leading to the camps'''. | *In the 1860s, many gold seekers took '''steamboats from Saint Louis to Fort Benton, Montana, where they joined the Mullan Wagon Road leading to the camps'''. | ||
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*In the 1890s and 1900s, the building of branch railroad lines encouraged new mining and homesteading. | *In the 1890s and 1900s, the building of branch railroad lines encouraged new mining and homesteading. | ||
==For Further Reading== | |||
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=== References === | === References === | ||
*''Montana Research Outline''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001. (NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into the FamilySearch Wiki and is being updated as time permits.) | *''Montana Research Outline''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001. (NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into the FamilySearch Wiki and is being updated as time permits.) | ||