| Display title | Erie Canal Student Sample |
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| Page creator | PatsyBrown (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 11:14, 29 November 2015 |
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| Date of latest edit | 11:27, 8 December 2022 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Basic Edits The Erie Canal website and the FamilySearch Catalog have more information about the history of the Erie Canal. Settlers and Records Because so many immigrants traveled on the canal, many genealogists would like to find copies of canal passenger lists. Unfortunately, apart from the years 1827-1829, canal boat operators were not required to record or report passenger names to the New York State government. Those 1827-1829 passenger lists survive today in the New York State Archives. Prior to the building of the Erie Canal the settlers in upstate New York were often from New England, especially Vermont. Once the Canal was finished, setters along the canal and farther west into Ohio would have reached the Erie Canal from New York City, or from along the Hudson River in New York, or from Vermont via the Champlain Canal. Most of the men who labored to build the Erie Canal were from Ireland and many of them settled near it. Sources |