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U.S. Migration Routes Canals Ports Railroads Rivers and Lakes Trails and Roads Substitute Records  Other records that show where people originated or settled are: Census Church Records Directories Journals and Diaries Land and Property Maps (especially plat and insurance maps) Taxation Voting Records

Wagon Train The usage of "Mormon" and "LDS" on this page is approved according to current policy. Key U.S. Migration Internet Links Oregon and Its Pioneers free lists 1839-1855 California Pioneer List Master Index pre-1880 Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel 1846-1868 free index Camino Real: Five Waves of Settlers 1598-1800. New Mexico Paper Trail. A Guide to Overland Pioneer Names & Documents. Oregon - California Trails Association Ancestry.com ($) indexes to immigration and pioneer lists Migrations An ongoing project with thousand of names for all States. Value of Migration Research Mountains, forests, waterways, and the gaps between them channeled migration into predictable settlement patterns. Events like gold or land rushes, and Indian treaties also affected settlement. Understanding the transportation systems available to ancestors can help genealogists better guess their place of origin. Connect the place where an ancestor settled to the nearby canals,waterways, trails, roads, and railroads to look for connections to places they may have lived previously. Migration research may help you discover: a place of origin, previous hometown, or place where an ancestor settled biographical details such as what they experienced, or with whom they traveled on their journey clues for finding other records Types of U.S. Migration Records Actual lists of travelers are unusual. A few passenger lists are available at the New York State Archives for the Erie Canal from 1827-1829. But lists of pioneers who settled an area are sometimes available on the Internet, or in the form of county or local histories. The diaries and journals of people on the move may help you learn who they had as companions on the journey, and what their trip was like. Censuses, directories, land and property records, plat maps, tax records, and voting registers can sometimes be used to learn where new arrivals settled. Starting in 1850 federal censuses show where a person was born, and starting in 1880 where the parents were born. Church records of some denominations may indicate a former residence of a family or a place to which they were moving. The minutes of the Society of Friends (Quakers) are especially helpful, since the Monthly Meeting from which the family was moving issued a certificate of recommendation to the Monthly Meeting to which they were going. And the receiving Monthly Meeting recorded in their minutes, the location of the Monthly Meeting from which the family had come. Not all denominations were as diligent in recording this type of information, but some others had somewhat similar records. Maritime museums often hold records of ships, ports, maps, photographs, personal and business records, and manuscripts. Collections vary by facility. Maritime Research Center - San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park National Park Service Collections Research Center - Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI). It chronicles the migrations and living conditions during the Great Depression and WWII. Western Trails Resources Making the Trek - National Park Service David Lavender.The Overland migrations : settlers to Oregon, California, and Utah. Washington,D.C.: United states Government Printing Office, 1979. FS Library 973 W2Ld Names Randy Brown. Historic Inscriptions on Western Emigrant Trails. Independence, Missouri: Oregon California Trails Association, 2004. FS Library 978 H2bh Randy Brown and Reg Duffin. Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails. Independence, Missouri: Oregon-California Trails Association,1991,1998. FS Library 973 V3bro Richard and Alice Nelson. Goin'West: a record of some who went west,1830-1880. 12 volumes. Oceanside,California: R. Nelson, 1987 - FS Library 973 W2nr Lois A. Dove, comp. Wagon Trains, 1849-1865. Sacramento, Calif.: L. Dove, 1989. FS Library film 1597855 item 5 Ash Hollow Fort Kearny Register of Wagon Trains Passing Through the Post, 6.9.1868-7.29.1969. NAID 301851. National Archives Catalog Courthouse Rock Chimney Rock Chimney Rock National Historic Site - Nebraska History Leon A. Moomaw. Pioneering in the shadow of Chimney Rock. Gering, Nebraska: Courier Press, 1966. FS Library 978.29 H2m Scott's Bluff Merrill J. Mattes. Scotts Bluff. National Monument Nebraska. National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 28. Washington,D.C. 1958. (Reprint, 1961 Scotts Bluff National Monument Nebraska - National Park Service Scotts Bluff National Monument History & Culture Fort Laramie Fort Laramie National Historic Site National Park Service LeRoy R. Hafen. Fort Laramie and the pageant of the West,1834-1890. reprint. Lincoln,Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. FS Library 978.718/F1 H2hy Independence Rock Names on Independence Rock Robert Spurrier Ellison. Independence Rock: The Great Record of the Deseret. Casper, Wyoming: Natrona County Historical Society, 1930. Levida Hileman. In tar and paint and stone: the inscriptions at Independence Rock and Devil' Gate. Glendo,Wyoming: High Plains Press, 2001. FS Library 978.793 H2hl Soda Springs South Pass South Pass - Fremont County,Wyoming - National Park Service Fort Hall Fort Bridger Fred R. Gowans. Fort Bridger, island in the wilderness. Provo,Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1975. FS Library 987.784/F1 H2g Robert Spurrier Ellison. Fort Bridger Wyoming: a brief history, comprising Jim Bridger's old trading post,Fort Bridger becomes a trading post. Sheridan,Wyo.: Historical landmark Commission of Wyoming, 1938. FS Library film 223692 Hunt Janin. Fort Bridger,Wyoming: trading post for Indians, mountain men and westward migrants. Jefferson,North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2001. FS Library 987.784/F1 H2j Western Trails Interpretive Centers National Frontier Trails Museum, Independence, Missouri Western Historic Trails Center, Council Bluffs, Iowa Mormon Trails Center at Historic Winter Quarters, Omaha,Nebraska National Historic Trails Center, Casper, Wyoming National Oregon/California Trail center, Montpelier, Idaho End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Oregon City National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Baler City California Trail Interpretive Center, Elko, Nevada Trail of the 49ers Interpretive Center, Wells, Nevada Oregon California Trails Association About the Oregon California Trails Association Genealogy & Paper Trail - A Guide to Overland Pioneer Documents People & Stories - Life, Locations, & Lineage on the Oregon and California Trails Merrill J. Mattes Collection Cave Springs Collection Pre-1850 Migrations Using the list below, go to the state where the family settled, then revert to the first place in column three, then second place, etc to the end. That is the probable route to the state you have chosen. Semicolons indicated a different route for a different population. To: From: AL Alabama TN,GA,NC,SC,MD AR Arkansas MS, AL,TN,GA,KY,NC,VA,MD,SC CT Connecticut MA,RI DE Delaware NY-Dutch,NJ; PA-English,NY,NJ,VA,MD; PA-German FL Florida West-TN,VA; Mid-VA,NC,SC; East-GA, AL,NC,SC GA Georgia TN,NC,VA,SC; 1752-MA; Moravian's-NC IL Illinois South-NC,VA,KY,MD,PA; North-New England IN Indiana VA,KY,SC,NC; North-New England; TN-Quakers,NC,SC IA Iowa IL,IN,OH,NY,WI,MN,MI KS Kansas MO,IA,IL,IN,OH,KY; state census asks previous place of Residence Ky Kentucky VA,NC,MD,PA,TN LA Louisiana TN,KY, AL,MS,GA,SC,NC; French-Canada or direct MD Maryland DE,PA,VA; DE-Dutch,NY,French-Nova Scotia;PA-German; PA-Scotch Irish,VA MI Michigan New England,NY MN Minnesota ME,then rest of New England MS Mississippi AL,TN,GA,NC,SC,VA,KY,MD MO Missouri KY,VA,NC,SC,MD,PA,TN NE Nebraska KS,MO,IA NH New Hampshire MA,ME,VT,CT,NY NJ New Jersey English-CT,NY (particularly Long Island),Dutch-NY; Quakers-DE,PA NY New York MA,CT,NJ,RI,VT; French-Canada,West Indies NC North Carolina VA,SC,MD,PA-Shenandoah Valley;VA-Quakers,PA,MA (later many moved to OH,IN) OH Ohio MA-SE corner,CT ,VA,KY,TN,NJ; PA-Quakers,NC; PA-German; Franklin County, OH,Perry County, OH,Licking County, OH; Canada OK Oklahoma IL-North,IA,KS; South-AR,MO,TX,TN PA Pennsylvania CT,NY,NJ RI Rhode Island MA,CT, SC South Carolina West Indies (Charleston); Dutch-NY TN Tennessee NC,VA,SC TX Texas NC,VA,SC VT Vermont MA,CT,ME,Canada VA Virginia NC,DE,MD,PA;Quakers-PA,NJ Migration Records for Selected States   California   Indiana   New Mexico   Ohio   Oregon   Utah Bibliography Adams, James Truslow, editor-in-chief. Atlas of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Atwood, Wallace W. The Physiographic Provinces of North America, Boston: Ginn, 1940. Billington, Ray Allen. The American Frontier Thesis: Attack and Defense. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966. Billington, Ray Allen. Westward Expansion: a History of the American Frontier. 5th Ed. New York: Macmillan, 1982. WorldCat 0023098600 Dollarhide William. Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815. (Bountiful, UT: AGLL Genealogical Services, 1997) FS Library book 973 E3d. Flanders, Stephen A. Atlas of American Migration. New York, New York: Facts on File, c1998. WorldCat 0816031584 International Institute of Genealogical Studies. International Institute) United States Reconstructing Ancestral Migration Routes. Putnam, Jackson K. "The Turner Thesis and the Westward Movement: a Reappraisal." Western Historical Quarterly 7 (October 1976). Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986. WorldCat 0816509468  White, C. Langdon & Edwin J. Foscue. Regional Geography of North America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1943. References

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