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== Online Resources ==
==How to Find the Records==
*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_idaho-usa_15&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho; ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($)
Idaho, being entirely inland, has no seaports. Immigrants would have initially arrived at a port on the coast. To search those records, see [[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records|'''United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records.''']]
*'''1887-1924''' [http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/fhc/Japan/index.asp BYU Idaho Japanese Immigrants to the United States, 1887-1924]
=== Online Resources ===
*'''1895-1956''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10942/united-states-border-crossings-from-canada-1895-1956?s=1&formId=collection_10942:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at MyHeritge; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_idaho-usa_15&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho; ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($)
*'''1895-1960''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1075 U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960] at Ancestry; index & images ($)
*'''1895-1956''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10942/united-states-border-crossings-from-canada-1895-1956?s=1&formId=collection_10942:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at MyHeritage - index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*'''1904-1944''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60579 Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944] at Ancestry; index & images ($)
*'''1895-1960''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1075/ U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960] at Ancestry - index & images ($)
*'''1904-1944''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60579 Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944] at Ancestry - index & images ($)
*'''1924-1956''' {{RecordSearch|2072140|Idaho, Eastport Arrival Manifests, 1924-1956}} at FamilySearch; index & images - [[Idaho, Eastport Arrival Manifests - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
====Cultural Groups====
====Cultural Groups====
*'''1920-1939''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10924/germany-bremen-emigration-lists-1920-1939?s=1&formId=collection_10924:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*'''1920-1939''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10924/germany-bremen-emigration-lists-1920-1939?s=1&formId=collection_10924:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*'''1924-1956''' {{RecordSearch|2072140|Idaho, Eastport Arrival Manifests, 1924-1956}} at FamilySearch - [[Idaho, Eastport Arrival Manifests - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10030/italians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10030/italians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10029/russians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10029/russians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Idaho+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Idaho
 
==== Passport Records Online  ====
*'''1795-1925''' {{RecordSearch|2185145|United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925}} at [https://www.familysearch.org/search FamilySearch]; index & images — [[United States, Passport Applications - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]
*'''1795-1925''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174 U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925] Index and images, at Ancestry ($)
 
===Offices to Contact===
Although many records are included in the online records listed above, there are other records available through these archives and offices. For example, there are many minor ports that have not yet been digitized. There are also records for more recent time periods. For privacy reasons, some records can only be accessed after providing proof that your ancestor is now deceased.
 
====U.S. Citizenship and and Immigration Services Genealogy Program====
The [https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy '''USCIS Genealogy Program'''] is a fee-for-service program that provides researchers with timely access to historical immigration and naturalization records of deceased immigrants. If the immigrant was born less than 100 years ago, you will also need to provide proof of his/her death.
=====Immigration Records Available=====
*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/a-files-numbered-below-8-million '''A-Files:'''] Immigrant Files, (A-Files) are the individual alien case files, which became the official file for all immigration records created or consolidated since April 1, 1944.
*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/historical-record-series/alien-registration-forms-on-microfilm-1940-1944 '''Alien Registration Forms (AR-2s):'''] Alien Registration Forms (Form AR-2) are copies of approximately 5.5 million Alien Registration Forms completed by all aliens age 14 and older, residing in or entering the United States between August 1, 1940 and March 31, 1944.
*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/registry-files-march-2-1929-march-31-1944''' Registry Files:'''] Registry Files are records, which document the creation of immigrant arrival records for persons who entered the United States prior to July 1, 1924, and for whom no arrival record could later be found.
*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/visa-files-july-1-1924-march-31-1944'''Visa Files:'''] Visa Files are original arrival records of immigrants admitted for permanent residence under provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924.<ref>"Genealogy", at USCIS, https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy, accessed 26 March 2021.</ref>
 
=====Requesting a Record=====
*[https://genealogy.uscis.dhs.gov/ '''Web Request Page'''] allows you to request a records, pay fees, and upload supporting documents (proof of death).
*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/genealogical-records-help/record-requests-frequently-asked-questions '''Record Requests Frequently Asked Questions''']
 
====Oregon-California Trails Association====
[http://www.octa-trails.org/ '''Oregon-California Trails Association'''] is an educational organization that promotes the story of the westward migration to Oregon, among other places. Their site includes a personal name index to trail diaries, journals, reminiscences, autobiographies, newspaper articles, guidebooks and letters at [https://www.paper-trail.org/ A Guide to Overland Pioneer Names and Documents].
*[https://www.paper-trail.org/Search '''Search the Paper Trail Database'''] Initial searches are FREE! You can go to the "Search" tab now to begin. These free searches will tell you if a name or document is in the database. It will give you the origin and year of the journey, how the person was mentioned, the name of the party, and the name and author of the document described. [https://www.paper-trail.org/Account/Register '''Subscriptions'''] give you more complete information including a scan of the original survey. This lists the route taken, ages, and other notes about the document. But most importantly, you will have access to the location of known copies of the original document.
 
==Finding Town of Origin==
Records in the countries emigrated from are kept on the local level. You must first identify the '''name of the town''' where your ancestors lived to access those records. If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it.
*[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']]


==Background==
==Background==
*The pioneers who traveled over the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and 1850s rarely settled in Idaho. There were temporary trading posts and Protestant and Catholic missions, but no permanent white settlement in Idaho until 1860, when '''settlers from Utah established Latter-day Saint communities in the Cache Valley'''.
*In the early 1860s, many settlers returned from Washington, Oregon, and California to the '''gold fields of Idaho's northern panhandle'''.
*In the mid-1860s, silver miners established mining settlements around '''Silver City in Owyhee County'''.
*At the peak of this first mining boom as many as 70,000 whites may have been in Idaho, but by 1870 this number had dwindled to the 15,000 counted in the census.
*Settlement was stimulated in the 1880s and 1890s by '''new mining booms in the north''' and by the '''arrival of railroads''' in the farmlands of southern Idaho.
*In the early 1900s, when reclamation projects opened desert lands to farming, a new wave of settlement from nearby states took place in southern Idaho.
*Most Idaho residents are of '''British, German, or Scandinavian origin''', although there are about '''6,000 Basques living near Boise'''.
==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'''.]] Again, Idaho, being entirely inland, has no seaports. Immigrants would have initially arrived at a port on the coast. To search those records, see [[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records|'''United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records.''']]
===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. 


The pioneers who traveled over the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and 1850s rarely settled in Idaho. There were temporary trading posts and Protestant and Catholic missions but no permanent white settlement in Idaho until 1860 when settlers from Utah established Latter-day Saint communities in the Cache Valley.  
*'''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.


In the early 1860s, many settlers returned from Washington, Oregon, and California to the gold fields of Idaho's northern panhandle. In the mid-1860s, silver miners established mining settlements around Silver City in Owyhee County. At the peak of this first mining boom as many as 70,000 whites may have been in Idaho, but by 1870 this number had dwindled to the 15,000 counted in the census.  
*'''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.  


Settlement was stimulated in the 1880s and 1890s by new mining booms in the north and by the arrival of railroads in the farmlands of southern Idaho. During this period, some Latter-day Saint families who had moved from Utah continued their migration northward to Alberta Province in Canada. [http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSSI3.xml#bio Register of the Histories of Pioneers who settled in the Upper Snake River Valley, 1883-1893]
*'''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.


In the early 1900s, when reclamation projects opened desert lands to farming, a new wave of settlement from nearby states took place in southern Idaho. Today, nearly 70 percent of Idaho's population lives within 30 miles of the Snake River.  
====[[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:


Most Idaho residents are of British, German, or Scandinavian origin, although there are about 6,000 Basques living near Boise. If you are looking for information on Basque settlement, you may find helpful information in Pat Bieter, ''The Basques in Idaho''. Boise, Idaho: Idaho State Historical Society, 197? {{FHL|199916|item|disp=FHL film 1036796 item 15; book 979.6 F2bb.}}
*Birthplace 
*Birth date
*Naturalization information  
*Arrival information, if foreign born


A few records of other ethnic groups are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under {{FHL|419490|subject-id|disp=IDAHO - MINORITIES}}. One such group for which an index is being created is the Japanese (see [http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/fhc/Japan/index.asp Japanese Immigration to the United States 1887-1924], a web site created by BYU-Idaho).
==In-country Migration==
*During the 1880s and 1890s, some Latter-day Saint families who had moved from Utah continued their migration northward to '''Alberta Province in Canada.'''
=== Idaho Migration Routes  ===


There was no port of entry common to overseas immigrants who settled in Idaho. The Family History Library and the National Archives have passenger lists for east coast ports for the years between 1820 and about 1920. You'll find suggestions on Latter-day Saint immigration sources on the [[Utah Genealogy|Utah Wiki page]]. Detailed information on other immigration sources is on the [[United States|United States Wiki page]].
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    <li>Snake River</li>
    <li>[[Applegate Trail]]</li>
    <li>[[California Trail]]</li>
    <li>[[Oregon Trail]]</li>
    <li>[[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)]]</li>
    <li>[[Northern Pacific Railroad]]</li>
    <li>[[Union Pacific Railroad]]</li>
</ul>
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The [http://www.octa-trails.org/ Oregon-California Trails Association] is an educational organization that promotes the story of the westward migration to Idaho, among other places. Their site includes a personal name index to trail diaries, journals, reminiscences, autobiographies, newspaper articles, guidebooks and letters at http://[http://www.paper-trail.org/ www.paper-trail.org/] {{Idaho|Idaho}}  
==For Further Reading==
*[http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSSI3.xml#bio Register of the Histories of Pioneers who settled in the Upper Snake River Valley, 1883-1893]
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/165211-redirection The Basques in Idaho]
The FamilySearch Library has additional sources listed in their catalog:
*{{FSC|United States, Idaho - Emigration and immigration|subject|subject-id=854732029|disp=United States, Idaho - Emigration and immigration}}
*{{FSC|United States, Idaho - Emigration and immigration - Indexes|subject|subject-id=1261981456|disp=United States, Idaho - Emigration and immigration - Indexes}}
*{{FSC|United States, Idaho - Migration, Internal|subject|subject-id=1021662458|disp=United States, Idaho - Migration, Internal}}
*{{FSC|United States, Idaho - Minorities|subject|subject-id=2002670320|disp=United States, Idaho - Minorities}}


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