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==How to Find the Records== | ==How to Find the Records== | ||
*Major ports of entry to Michigan have been '''New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Quebec'''. | *Major ports of entry to Michigan have been '''New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Quebec'''. See [[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records|'''United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records'''.]] | ||
=== Online Resources === | === Online Resources === | ||
*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_michigan-usa_25&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry | *'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_michigan-usa_25&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Michigan; ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Michigan+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($) | ||
*'''1800s''' [http://www.macatawa.org/~devries/Shipindex.htm Immigrant ships of the Dutch Colonists of the 19th century to West Michigan and Iowa] | |||
*'''1894-1954''' {{RecordSearch|2185932|United States, Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1894-1954}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1894-1954 - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | *'''1894-1954''' {{RecordSearch|2185932|United States, Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1894-1954}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1894-1954 - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; 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.Michigan+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at | *'''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.Michigan+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at MyHeritage - index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Michigan | ||
*'''1900-1965''' [http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/michigan-detroit-passenger-lists-1900-1965 Michigan, Detroit Passenger Lists, 1900-1965] at | *'''1900-1965''' [http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/michigan-detroit-passenger-lists-1900-1965 Michigan, Detroit Passenger Lists, 1900-1965] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1903-1965''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1247 Michigan Passenger and Crew Lists, 1903-1965] at Ancestry | *'''1903-1965''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1247 Michigan Passenger and Crew Lists, 1903-1965] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1905-1963''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1070 Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1963] at Ancestry | *'''1905-1963''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1070 Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1963] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1906-1954''' {{RecordSearch|1916040|Michigan, Detroit Manifests of Arrivals at the Port of Detroit, 1906-1954}} at FamilySearch - [[Michigan, Detroit Manifests of Arrivals at the Port of Detroit - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | *'''1906-1954''' {{RecordSearch|1916040|Michigan, Detroit Manifests of Arrivals at the Port of Detroit, 1906-1954}} at FamilySearch - [[Michigan, Detroit Manifests of Arrivals at the Port of Detroit - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | ||
*'''1929-1966''' {{RecordSearch|2426314|Michigan, Crew Lists for various ports, 1929-1966}} at FamilySearch - [[Michigan, Crew Lists for Various Ports - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | *'''1929-1966''' {{RecordSearch|2426314|Michigan, Crew Lists for various ports, 1929-1966}} at FamilySearch - [[Michigan, Crew Lists for Various Ports - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | ||
*'''1957-1959''' {{RecordSearch|2443337| Michigan, South Haven Crew Lists, 1957-1959}} at FamilySearch - [[Michigan, South Haven Crew Lists - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; images | |||
====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.Michigan+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at | *'''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.Michigan+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Michigan | ||
* [http://www.macatawa.org/~devries/Shipindex.htm Immigrant ships of the Dutch Colonists of the 19th century to West Michigan and Iowa] | * [http://www.macatawa.org/~devries/Shipindex.htm Immigrant ships of the Dutch Colonists of the 19th century to West Michigan and Iowa] | ||
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Michigan+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at | *[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Michigan+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Michigan | ||
*[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.Michigan+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at | *[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.Michigan+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Michigan | ||
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10029/russians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Michigan+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage | *[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10029/russians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Michigan+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Michigan | ||
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==== Passport Records Online ==== | ==== Passport Records Online ==== | ||
*'''1795-1925''' | *'''1795-1925''' {{RecordSearch|2185145|United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Passport Applications - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | ||
*'''1795-1925''' | *'''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=== | ===Offices to Contact=== | ||
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*[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']] | *[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']] | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*By the mid-18th century, the French occupied forts at Fort Pontchartrain, Fort Michilimackinac, and forts present-day Niles and Sault Ste. Marie, though most of the rest of the region remained unsettled by Europeans. France offered free land to attract families to '''Detroit, which grew to 800 people in 1765, and was the largest city between Montreal and New Orleans.''' | |||
*French settlers also established small farms south of the Detroit River opposite the fort, near a Jesuit mission and Huron village. | |||
*During the American Revolutionary War, Detroit was an important British supply center. Most of the inhabitants were '''French-Canadians or Native Americans'''. | |||
*The population grew slowly until the opening in 1825 of the Erie Canal through the Mohawk Valley in New York, connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and New York City. The new route attracted a large influx of settlers to the Michigan territory. | |||
*A '''second wave of French-Canadian immigrants''' settled in Michigan during the late 19th to early 20th century, working in lumbering areas in counties on the Lake Huron side of the Lower Peninsula, such as the Saginaw Valley, Alpena, and Cheboygan counties, as well as throughout the Upper Peninsula, with large concentrations in Escanaba and the Keweenaw Peninsula. | |||
*Pre-statehood settlers of Michigan generally came from '''New York, Ohio, the New England states, and Ontario'''. | *Pre-statehood settlers of Michigan generally came from '''New York, Ohio, the New England states, and Ontario'''. | ||
*Many immigrants from '''Germany and the Netherlands''' arrived by 1850. Later arrivals were '''Scandinavian, Irish, Cornish, Italian, and Polish'''. | *Many immigrants from '''Germany and the Netherlands''' arrived by 1850. Later arrivals were '''Scandinavian, Irish, Cornish, Italian, and Polish'''. | ||
*Ford's development of the moving assembly line in Highland Park marked a new era in transportation. With the growth, the auto industry created jobs in Detroit that attracted '''immigrants from Europe and migrants from across the United States, including both blacks and whites from the rural South.''' By the 1930s, so many immigrants had arrived that more than 30 languages were spoken in the public schools. | |||
*Michigan has the largest '''Dutch, Finnish, and Macedonian populations in the United States.'''<ref>"Michigan", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan, accessed 5 April 2021.</ref> | |||
===Demographics=== | |||
*Americans of '''European descent''' live throughout Michigan and most of Metro Detroit. Large European American groups include those of '''German, British, Irish, Polish and Belgian ancestry.''' | |||
*People of '''Scandinavian''' descent, and those of '''Finnish''' ancestry, have a notable presence in the Upper Peninsula. | |||
*Western Michigan is known for the '''Dutch heritage''* of many residents (the highest concentration of any state), especially in Holland and metropolitan Grand Rapids. | |||
*'''African-Americans''', who came to Detroit and other northern cities in the Great Migration of the early 20th century, form a majority of the population of the city of Detroit and of other cities, including Flint and Benton Harbor. | |||
*As of 2007 about 300,000 people in Southeastern Michigan trace their descent from the '''Middle East'''. Dearborn has a sizeable '''Arab community''', with many '''Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac, and Lebanese''' who immigrated for jobs in the auto industry in the 1920s along with more recent '''Yemenis and Iraqis.''' | |||
*As of 2007, almost 8,000 '''Hmong people''' lived in the State of Michigan, about double their 1999 presence in the state. | |||
*As of 2015, 80% of Michigan's '''Japanese''' population lived in the counties of Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne in the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas. The state has 481 Japanese employment facilities providing 35,554 local jobs.<ref>"Michigan: Demographics", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan#Demographics, accessed 5 April 2021.</ref> | |||
==Immigration Records== | ==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 [[Michigan Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | '''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 [[Michigan Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | ||
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*Birthplace | *Birthplace | ||
*Birth date | *Birth date | ||
*Naturalization | *Naturalization information | ||
*Arrival information, if foreign born | *Arrival information, if foreign born | ||
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==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
*{{ | The FamilySearch Library has additional sources listed in their catalog: | ||
*{{ | *{{FSC|United States, Michigan - Emigration and immigration|subject|subject-id=1298512130|disp=United States, Michigan - Emigration and immigration}} | ||
*{{ | *{{FSC|United States, Michigan - Emigration and immigration - Indexes|subject|subject-id=1783383371|disp=United States, Michigan - Emigration and immigration - Indexes}} | ||
*{{ | *{{FSC|United States, Michigan - Minorities|subject|subject-id=1762663659|disp=United States, Michigan - Minorities}} | ||
*{{ | *{{FSC|United States, Michigan - Minorities - Biography|subject|subject-id=1095864341|disp=United States, Michigan - Minorities - Biography}} | ||
*{{FSC|United States, Michigan - Minorities - Periodicals|subject|subject-id=314862373|disp=United States, Michigan - Minorities - History}} | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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