Kansas Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_kansas-usa_19&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Kansas; ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Kansas+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($)

*'''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.Kansas+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at MyHeritage - index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Kansas

*'''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.Kansas+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Kansas

*[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.Kansas+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Kansas

*[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.Kansas+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Kansas

*[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.Kansas+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Kansas

*'''1795-1925''' {{RecordSearch|2185145|United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925}} at 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 ($)

[http://orphantraindepot.org/ '''National Orphan Train Complex''']<br>300 Washington Street<br>P.O. Box 322<br>Concordia, Kansas 66901<br>Telephone: 785-243-4471

*Kansas was considered part of the Great American Desert and did not attract white settlers until the 1850s. The early settlers generally arrived from the states of '''Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana'''.  

*A significant number came from the New England states in 1854 and 1855, aided by the [[New England Emigrant Aid Company|'''New England Emigrant Aid Company''']]. Other families immigrated from the British Isles and Germany.  

*After the Civil War, many '''Union veterans''' settled in Kansas when the Homestead Act (1862) and other public laws opened the land for settlement. Many were from the Ohio River Valley (especially Kentucky and Tennessee) and from the Middle Atlantic and New England states.  

*By 1870 many of the Indian tribes had been removed to what is now Oklahoma, although '''Potawatomi, Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo Indians''' still live on small reservations in the state.  

*About 7,000 '''African Americans''' from '''Tennessee''' settled in Cherokee County beginning in 1873, and several thousand came from the '''lower Mississippi Valley''' states to Kansas City in the "Great Exodus" of 1879 and 1880.  

*The post-Civil War boom also attracted new settlers from overseas. Between 1870 and 1890, many '''Scandinavians''' and thousands of '''Germans from Russia''' joined the immigration to Kansas, as did smaller groups of '''Czechs and French'''.  

*Settlement of Kansas progressed from east to west until by about 1890 all areas of the state had been settled.  

*'''Religious groups''' also established some of the early settlements in Kansas. These included '''Quakers, River Brethren, Dunkards and German Baptists, and Mennonites''' from southern Russia.  

*A new wave of immigration from other countries began about 1895 and continued until 1915. During this period, small groups arrived from '''Mexico, Italy, Greece, and Yugoslavia.'''

*Naturalization information  

===Kansas Migration Routes===

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