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==How to Find the Records== | |||
Wyoming, 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.''']] | |||
===Online Resources=== | |||
*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_wyoming-usa_53&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Wyoming; ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Wyoming+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($) | |||
*'''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.Wyoming+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at MyHeritage - index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Wyoming | |||
====Cultural Groups==== | |||
*'''1920-1939''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10924/germany-bremen-emigration-lists-1920-1939?s=1&formId=collection_10924:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.Wyoming+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Wyoming | |||
*[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.Wyoming+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Wyoming | |||
*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10030/italians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?action=query&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Wyoming+epmo.similar&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Wyoming | |||
*[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.Wyoming+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Wyoming | |||
==== Passport Records Online ==== | |||
*'''1795-1925''' {{RecordSearch|2185145|United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Passport Applications - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | |||
*'''1795-1925''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174 U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925] Index and images, at Ancestry ($) | |||
===Offices to Contact=== | |||
Although many records are included in the online records listed above, there are other records available through these archives and offices. For example, there are many minor ports that have not yet been digitized. There are also records for more recent time periods. For privacy reasons, some records can only be accessed after providing proof that your ancestor is now deceased. | |||
The | ====U.S. Citizenship and and Immigration Services Genealogy Program==== | ||
The [https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy '''USCIS Genealogy Program'''] is a fee-for-service program that provides researchers with timely access to historical immigration and naturalization records of deceased immigrants. If the immigrant was born less than 100 years ago, you will also need to provide proof of his/her death. | |||
=====Immigration Records Available===== | |||
*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/a-files-numbered-below-8-million '''A-Files:'''] Immigrant Files, (A-Files) are the individual alien case files, which became the official file for all immigration records created or consolidated since April 1, 1944. | |||
*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/historical-record-series/alien-registration-forms-on-microfilm-1940-1944 '''Alien Registration Forms (AR-2s):'''] Alien Registration Forms (Form AR-2) are copies of approximately 5.5 million Alien Registration Forms completed by all aliens age 14 and older, residing in or entering the United States between August 1, 1940 and March 31, 1944. | |||
*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/registry-files-march-2-1929-march-31-1944''' Registry Files:'''] Registry Files are records, which document the creation of immigrant arrival records for persons who entered the United States prior to July 1, 1924, and for whom no arrival record could later be found. | |||
*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/visa-files-july-1-1924-march-31-1944'''Visa Files:'''] Visa Files are original arrival records of immigrants admitted for permanent residence under provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924.<ref>"Genealogy", at USCIS, https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy, accessed 26 March 2021.</ref> | |||
=====Requesting a Record===== | |||
*[https://genealogy.uscis.dhs.gov/ '''Web Request Page'''] allows you to request a records, pay fees, and upload supporting documents (proof of death). | |||
*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/genealogical-records-help/record-requests-frequently-asked-questions '''Record Requests Frequently Asked Questions'''] | |||
====Oregon-California Trails Association==== | |||
[http://www.octa-trails.org/ '''Oregon-California Trails Association'''] is an educational organization that promotes the story of the westward migration to Oregon, among other places. Their site includes a personal name index to trail diaries, journals, reminiscences, autobiographies, newspaper articles, guidebooks and letters at [https://www.paper-trail.org/ A Guide to Overland Pioneer Names and Documents]. | |||
*[https://www.paper-trail.org/Search '''Search the Paper Trail Database'''] Initial searches are FREE! You can go to the "Search" tab now to begin. These free searches will tell you if a name or document is in the database. It will give you the origin and year of the journey, how the person was mentioned, the name of the party, and the name and author of the document described. [https://www.paper-trail.org/Account/Register '''Subscriptions'''] give you more complete information including a scan of the original survey. This lists the route taken, ages, and other notes about the document. But most importantly, you will have access to the location of known copies of the original document. | |||
==Finding Town of Origin== | |||
Records in the countries emigrated from are kept on the local level. You must first identify the '''name of the town''' where your ancestors lived to access those records. If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it. | |||
*[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']] | |||
Today, most Wyoming residents are of northern European descent. There are small numbers of Italians in Rock Springs, Hispanic groups around Rock Springs and Cheyenne, and 2,000-3,000 | ==Background== | ||
*Until 1811, when fur traders first opened a trail through the area, Wyoming was the domain of the American Indians. Between 1825 and 1840, about 200 '''mountain men''' bartered with the Indians at rendezvous in the region. | |||
*In the 1840s and 1850s, many thousands of emigrants traveling the '''Oregon Trail''' to California, Utah, and other western states passed through the North Platte and Sweetwater valleys and South Pass in central Wyoming. In the 1860s, as Indian troubles increased in the north, many emigrants preferred the more southerly '''Overland Trail through Bridger Pass'''. Until the railroad came, very few emigrants stayed in Wyoming. | |||
*The discovery of gold in 1867 at South Pass brought many immigrants to western Wyoming. | |||
*A greater stimulus to settlement was the building of the transcontinental railroad in the late 1860s. Many '''Irish and Mexican laborers and Civil War veterans''' helped build the railway. | |||
*Settlers from the Midwest followed the railroad into Wyoming, and built Cheyenne, Laramie, and other towns along the route. | |||
*In the 1870s and 1880s, cattlemen from Texas drove herds into northern Wyoming. | |||
*Many '''Idaho Latter-day Saints came into Star Valley''' in the 1870s and 1880s. There were Latter-day Saint colonists in the Big Horn Basin by 1895, but the main body of Latter-day Saint settlers came there as an organized group from Utah and Idaho in 1900. | |||
*A sizable number of '''Finns''' came to work the mines in Uinta and Sweetwater counties in the late 1880s. | |||
*In 1895, a group of about 600 settlers came from '''Iowa and Illinois''' to homestead reclaimed land at a place now called Emblem, located near the Latter-day Saint colonies of the Big Horn Basin. | |||
*Today, most Wyoming residents are of northern European descent. There are small numbers of Italians in Rock Springs, Hispanic groups around Rock Springs and Cheyenne, and 2,000-3,000 African-Americans, primarily in Cheyenne. | |||
*Many '''Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Shoshoni Indians''' live on the Wind River Reservation of west-central Wyoming (see [[Indians of Wyoming|Indians of Wyoming]]). | |||
==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 [[Wyoming Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | |||
===What can I find in them?=== | |||
====[[Wyoming Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]==== | |||
*'''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: | |||
**name, age, sex, | |||
**nationality, occupation, marital status, | |||
**last residence, final destination in the U.S., | |||
**whether they had been to the U.S. before (and if so, when, where and how long), | |||
**if joining a relative, who this person was, where they lived, and their relationship, | |||
**whether able to read and write, | |||
**whether in possession of a train ticket to their final destination, who paid for the passage, | |||
**amount of money the immigrant had in their possession, | |||
**whether the passenger had ever been in prison, a poorhouse, or in an institution for the insane, | |||
**whether the passenger was a polygamist, | |||
**and immigrant's state of health. | |||
*[http:// | *'''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. | ||
====[[Wyoming Emigration and Immigration#Passport Records Online|Information in Passports]] ==== | |||
Over the years, passports and passport applications contained different amounts of information about the passport applicant. The first passports that are available begin in 1795. These usually contained the individual's name, description of individual, and age. More information was required on later passport applications, such as: | |||
*Birthplace | |||
*Birth date | |||
*Naturalization information | |||
*Arrival information, if foreign born | |||
==In-country Migration== | |||
=== Wyoming Migration Routes === | |||
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Platte_River North Platte River] | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetwater_River_(Wyoming) Sweetwater River] | [[Bozeman Trail]] | [[Chisholm Trail|Chisholm Trail]] | [[California Trail]] | [[Mormon Trail]] | [[Oregon Trail]] | [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific Railroad]] | |||
==For Further Reading== | |||
The FamilySearch Library has additional sources listed in their catalog: | |||
*{{FSC|United States, Wyoming - Emigration and immigration|subject|subject-id=12308718|disp=United States, Wyoming - Emigration and immigration}} | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
''[[Wyoming]] Research Outline.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001. | ''[[Wyoming Genealogy|Wyoming]] Research Outline.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001. | ||
:NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated as time permits. | :NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated as time permits. | ||
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