Arkansas Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

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Arkansas, 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.''']]

*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_arkansas-usa_6&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s - Arkansas, USA] at [http://search.ancestry.com/ Ancestry]; index only ($); ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Arkansas+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($)

*'''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.Arkansas+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956 to Arkansas] at [https://www.myheritage.com/research MyHeritge]; index & images ($)

*'''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.arkansas+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 to Arkansas] at [https://www.myheritage.com/research?s=270606331 MyHeritge]; index only ($)

* [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?action=query&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Arkansas+epmo.similar&initialFormIds=immigration,pili Germans Immigrating to the United States] at [https://www.myheritage.com/ MyHeritage]; index only ($)

*[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.Arkansas+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States - Arkansas] at [https://www.myheritage.com/Research MyHeritage]; index only ($)

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

*'''1795-1925''' - {{RecordSearch|2185145|United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925}} at [https://www.familysearch.org/search FamilySearch] — index and images

*'''1795-1925''' - [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174 U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925] Index and images, at Ancestry ($)

Very few Europeans came to the Arkansas area during the years of French and Spanish rule, 1686 to 1803. The 1810 census of the Louisiana Territory listed only 1,062 non-Indian residents in the entire District of Arkansas.  

 

Immigration began in earnest with the cotton boom of 1818. Many families of Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and English descent moved overland from Virginia and the Carolinas through Tennessee and Mississippi or Missouri. They often brought slaves with them. In 1860, Black slaves comprised over one fourth of the population. Most Arkansans today are descended from Anglo-Saxon and Black families who came from older southern states before 1900.  

 

About 1867, the rich land between the Arkansas and White rivers beckoned to large groups of Southern European emigrants. Many families from Poland settled in Pulaski County. A number of Italians located in the northwestern part of the state.  

 

 

:*Baker, Jack D.&nbsp;''Cherokee Emigration Rolls, 1817-1835.'' Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Baker Pub., 1977. {{FHL|58571|item|disp=FHL book 970.3 C424be}}. {{WorldCat|3892556|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat).}}

 

 

In 1850 Father Thomas Hore led a group of over 1000 Irish Catholics from counties Wicklow and Wexford to Little Rock, Arkansas. The group split into six parts, and ended up settling in New Orleans; Little Rock and Fort Smith, Arkansas; Refugio, Texas; St. Louis, Missouri; and Wexford, Iowa. A list of 847 of the emigrants is available in:<br>

 

*'''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:

*'''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.

*Naturalization&nbsp;information