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How to Find the Records

The major port of entry to all of New England is Boston. See Massachusetts Immigration Online Genealogy Records.

Online Resources

• 1500s-1900s All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s at Ancestry; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut; Also at MyHeritage; index only ($)
• 1620-1635 New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• 1789-1939 Mystic Seaport Index: Builders, Masters, and Owners
• 1804-1959 Connecticut, passenger and crew lists, 1804-1959 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1820-1874 United States, Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index
• 1820-1873Copies of lists of passengers arriving at miscellaneous ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at ports on the Great Lakes, 1820-1873 at FamilySearch, images
• 1895-1956 United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956 at MyHeritge; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
• 1911-1954 United States, New England Passenger and Crew Lists, 1911-1954 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1957-1962 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1957-1962 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild at MyHeritge; index only ($)
• United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - New England Passenger And Crew Lists at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - United States, Mystic Crew Lists at FindMyPast; index only ($)

Cultural Groups

• 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
• Germans Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
• Italians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
• Russians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut

Background

• Colonial settlers of Connecticut generally came from Great Britain and neighboring New England states.
• Many Irish and German immigrants began coming in the late 1840s.
• French-Canadian immigration began after the Civil War and continued through the rest of the nineteenth century.
• Late in the century most immigrants came from the southern and eastern countries of Europe, including Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

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