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Nearly 50 million people have immigrated to America. You can gain information from these records, such as your ancestor’s arrival date, port of departure and arrival, other family or community members, and country of origin.

The United States Emigration and Immigration Wiki article lists several important sources for finding information about immigrants. These nationwide sources include many references to people who settled in New Hampshire.

The Tracing Immigrant Origins Wiki article introduces the principles, search strategies, and additional record types you can use to identify an immigrant ancestor’s original hometown.

People[edit | edit source]

Colonial settlers of New Hampshire were mostly of British origin. The earliest settlers came from Massachusetts and Connecticut or directly from England. Beginning in 1719 they were joined by large numbers of Scotch-Irish. By the end of the 18th century, most of the original Indian tribes had moved northward to Canada.

After the Civil War, large numbers of French-Canadians moved southward from Quebec province to work in the textile mills. Today about one-fourth of New Hampshire residents are of French-Canadian descent. European immigrants also came to New Hampshire in the late 1800s, including large numbers of Irish and Italians and smaller groups from Scandinavia and Poland.

Records[edit | edit source]

The major port of entry to New England is Boston. The Family History Library and the National Archives have passenger lists for the years 1820 to March 1874, and 1883 to 1935. Incomplete passenger lists for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1820 to 1861 are available in Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820–1873, published by the United States Bureau of Customs. See the United States Emigration and Immigration Wiki article for references to the passenger lists of Boston and other ports.

The Massachusetts State Archives also has Boston passenger lists for 1848 to 1891, including records for the nine years (1 Apr. 1874–31 Dec. 1882) that are missing from the National Archives and Family History Library films. See the address for the Massachusetts State Archives in New Hampshire Archives and Libraries.

Colonial Immigration. Names of colonial immigrants listed in published sources are indexed in P. William Filby’s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. See the United States Emigration and Immigration Wiki article for this source and more detailed information on U.S. immigration sources.

A comprehensive list of about 140,000 immigrants to America from Britain is:

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607–1776 and Emigrants in Bondage, 1614–1775. Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives, no.350. [Novato, California]: Brøderbund Software, 1996. (Family History Library compact disc no. 9 pt. 350.) This does not circulate to Family History Centers. It includes New Hampshire immigrants and may show the British hometown, emigration date, ship, destination, and text of the document abstract. These are also indexed in the FamilyFinder Index and Viewer described in New Hampshire Census.

Canadian Border Crossing Records.[edit | edit source]

Many people came to New Hampshire via Canada. Lists are available for those who crossed the Canadian border between 1895 and 1954. Lists of passengers crossing the Canadian border to the United States, including New Hampshire, were collected at St. Albans, Vermont, and are called Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, Vermont District. This collection includes records from all over Canada and the northern United States. These are the records compiled by U.S. immigration officials who inspected travelers at all Canadian seaports, major cities, and emigration stations and at U.S. train arrival stations in all border states from Maine to Washington. These lists may include the name of the passenger, date and port or station of entry, literacy, last residence, previous visits to the United States, place of birth, and names of relatives in the United States and Canada. For a full description of the two sets of records and four indexes, see the Unites States Emigration and Immigration Wiki article.

Other sources on emigration and immigration can be found in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:

UNITED STATES- EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION

References[edit | edit source]

New Hampshire 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 here, as time permits.

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-==How to Find the Records==
-=== Online Resources ===
-*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_new+hampshire-usa_32&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry - index only ($); ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.New%2F3Hampshire+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($); includes those with Destination of New Hampshire
-*'''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.New%2F3Hampshire+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at MyHeritage - index & images ($); includes those with Destination of New Hampshire
-*'''1911-1954''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2072112 United States, New England Passenger and Crew Lists, 1911-1954] at FamilySearch - [[United States, New England Passenger and Crew Lists - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images
-*[https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=united%20states%2c%20passenger%20and%20crew%20lists&datasettitle=new%20england%20passenger%20and%20crew%20lists&sid=999 United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - New England Passenger And Crew Lists] at Findmypast - index & images ($)
-====Cultural Groups====
-*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/49091/ British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812], e-book
-*'''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.New%2F3Hampshire+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of New Hampshire
-*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.New%2F3Hampshire+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of New Hampshire
-*[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.New%2F3Hampshire+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of New Hampshire
-*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10029/russians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.New%2F3Hampshire+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of New Hampshire
-<br>
-==How to Find the Records==
+The [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration United States Emigration and Immigration] Wiki article lists several important sources for finding information about immigrants. These nationwide sources include many references to people who settled in New Hampshire.
-==== 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===
+The [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] Wiki article introduces the principles, search strategies, and additional record types you can use to identify an immigrant ancestor’s original hometown.
-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.
-====National Archives and Records Administration====
-*The [https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/overview '''National Archives (NARA)'''] has immigration records for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and 1982. The records are arranged by [https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/passenger-arrival.html#https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/passenger-arrival.html#where '''Port of Arrival (See Part 5).''']
-:*You may do research in immigration records in person at the National Archives Building, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408-0001.
-*Some [https://www.archives.gov/locations '''National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regional facilities'''] have selected immigration records; call to verify their availability or check the online Microfilm Catalog.
-*Libraries with large genealogical collections, such as the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog '''FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah'''] and the [https://acpl-cms.wise.oclc.org/genealogy '''Allen County Piblic Library'''] also have selected NARA microfilm publications.
-:*Order copies of passenger arrival records with [https://www.archives.gov/files/forms/pdf/natf-81.pdf '''NATF Form 81'''.]
-====U.S. Citizenship and and Immigration Services Genealogy Program====
+=== People  ===
-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=====
+Colonial settlers of New Hampshire were mostly of British origin. The earliest settlers came from [[Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] and [[Connecticut|Connecticut]] or directly from [[England|England]]. Beginning in 1719 they were joined by large numbers of Scotch-Irish. By the end of the 18th century, most of the original Indian tribes had moved northward to [[Canada|Canada]].
-*[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''']
-==Finding Town of Origin==
+After the Civil War, large numbers of French-Canadians moved southward from Quebec province to work in the textile mills. Today about one-fourth of New Hampshire residents are of French-Canadian descent. European immigrants also came to New Hampshire in the late 1800s, including large numbers of Irish and Italians and smaller groups from Scandinavia and Poland.
-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''']]
-==Background==
+=== Records  ===
-*Colonial settlers of New Hampshire were mostly of British origin. The earliest settlers came from [[Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] and [[Connecticut, United States Genealogy|Connecticut]] or directly from [[England Genealogy|England]].
-*Beginning in 1719 they were joined by large numbers of '''Scotch-Irish.'''
-*After the Civil War, large numbers of '''French-Canadians''' moved southward from Quebec province to work in the textile mills. Today about one-fourth of New Hampshire residents are of French-Canadian descent.
-*European immigrants also came to New Hampshire in the late 1800s, including '''large numbers of Irish and Italians'''' and '''smaller groups from Scandinavia and Poland.'''
-==Immigration Records==
+The major port of entry to New England is Boston. The Family History Library and the National Archives have passenger lists for the years 1820 to March 1874, and 1883 to 1935. Incomplete passenger lists for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1820 to 1861 are available in ''Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820–1873'', published by the United States Bureau of Customs. See the [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration United States Emigration and Immigration] Wiki article for references to the passenger lists of Boston and other ports.
-'''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 [[New Hampshire Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]]
-===What can I find in them?===
-====[[New Hampshire 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.
+The Massachusetts State Archives also has Boston passenger lists for 1848 to 1891, including records for the nine years (1 Apr. 1874–31 Dec. 1882) that are missing from the National Archives and Family History Library films. See the address for the Massachusetts State Archives in [[New Hampshire Archives and Libraries]].
-*'''1891-1954''' - Information given on passenger lists from 1891 to 1954 included:
+'''Colonial Immigration'''. Names of colonial immigrants listed in published sources are indexed in P. William Filby’s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. See the [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration United States Emigration and Immigration] Wiki article for this source and more detailed information on U.S. immigration sources.
-**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.
-*'''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.
+A comprehensive list of about 140,000 immigrants to America from Britain is:
-====[[New Hampshire Emigration and Immigration#Passport Records Online|Information in Passports]]  ====
+{{FHL|773852|title-id|disp=Coldham, Peter Wilson. ''The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607–1776 and Emigrants in Bondage, 1614–1775''}}. Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives, no.350. [Novato, California]: Brøderbund Software, 1996. (Family History Library compact disc no. 9 pt. 350.) This does not circulate to Family History Centers. It includes New Hampshire immigrants and may show the British hometown, emigration date, ship, destination, and text of the document abstract. These are also indexed in the FamilyFinder Index and Viewer described in [[New Hampshire Census]].
-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
+=== Canadian Border Crossing Records.  ===
-*Birth date
-*Naturalization information
-*Arrival information, if foreign born
-==In-country Migration==
+Many people came to New Hampshire via Canada. Lists are available for those who crossed the Canadian border between 1895 and 1954. Lists of passengers crossing the Canadian border to the United States, including New Hampshire, were collected at St. Albans, Vermont, and are called Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, Vermont District. This collection includes records from all over Canada and the northern United States. These are the records compiled by U.S. immigration officials who inspected travelers at all Canadian seaports, major cities, and emigration stations and at U.S. train arrival stations in all border states from Maine to Washington. These lists may include the name of the passenger, date and port or station of entry, literacy, last residence, previous visits to the United States, place of birth, and names of relatives in the United States and Canada. For a full description of the two sets of records and four indexes, see the [[Portal:United States Emigration and Immigration|Unites States Emigration and Immigration]] Wiki article.
-*[https://www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/537/nehgs-nexus-new-england-across-the-united-states NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States] at American Ancestors - index & images ($)
-[[Connecticut River]] {{·}} [[Merrimack River]] {{·}} [[Saco River]] {{·}} [[Kennebunk Road]] {{·}} [[King's Highway]]
+Other sources on emigration and immigration can be found in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:
-==For Further Reading==
+UNITED STATES- EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
-The FamilySearch Library has additional sources listed in their catalog:
-*{{FSC|United States, New Hampshire - Emigration and immigration|subject|subject-id=1919477381|disp=United States, New Hampshire - Emigration and immigration}}
-*{{FSC|United States, New Hampshire - Minorities|subject|subject-id=2013571698|disp=United States, New Hampshire - Minorities}}
+== References  ==
-=== References  ===
+''[[New Hampshire]] Research Outline''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001.
-<references/>
-''[[New Hampshire Genealogy|New Hampshire]] 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 here, as time permits.
+:NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated here, as time permits.
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-[[Category:New Hampshire, United States|Emigration]] [[Category:Scots-Irish]] [[Category:United States Emigration and Immigration|1]]
+[[Category:New_Hampshire|Emigration]] [[Category:Scots-Irish]] [[Category:English]]