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| ==In-country Migration== | | ==In-country Migration== |
| *Many settlers moved from Tennessee to areas further west, most notably to Arkansas and Texas. | | *Many settlers moved from Tennessee to areas further west, most notably to Arkansas and Texas. |
| === Westward Migrants ===
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| The ''Ozarks Migration Patterns Project'' by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, CGL, FASG and Gale Williams Bamman, CG, CGL, determined that 74% of the original 1000 land purchasers in Greene County, Missouri had migrated there from Tennessee.<ref>Marsha Hoffman Rising and Gale Williams Bamman, "Forging Links in a Surveyor's Chain: Samuel M. Scroggins of Missouri and Tennessee," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 83, No. 4 (December 1995):268-276. {{FHL|39597|item|disp=FHL Book 973 B2ng}}</ref>
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| Free native-born Tennesseans, alive in 1860, who had left the state, most popularly resettled in:<ref name="Lynch">William O. Lynch, "The Westward Flow of Southern Colonists before 1861," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug. 1943):303-327. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191319 JSTOR] ($).</ref> | | Free native-born Tennesseans, alive in 1860, who had left the state, most popularly resettled in:<ref name="Lynch">William O. Lynch, "The Westward Flow of Southern Colonists before 1861," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug. 1943):303-327. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191319 JSTOR] ($).</ref> |
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| Dorothy Williams Potter in ''Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823'' ({{FHL|265121|item|disp=FHL Book 975 W4p}}) identifies some migrants from Tennessee into territories that are now [[Alabama, United States Genealogy|Alabama]], [[Florida Genealogy|Florida]], [[Louisiana Genealogy|Louisiana]], [[Mississippi Genealogy|Mississippi]], and [[Missouri, United States Genealogy|Missouri]].
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| Robertson made a study of Tennesseans and other Easterners who had settled in Kansas by 1860:
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| *Robertson, Clara Hamlett. ''Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860 Who were Born in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina: A Compilation with Historical Annotations and Editorial Comment''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976. {{FHL|978.1 H2ro}}; digital version at [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806306971_clarahamlettrobertson1976 World Vital Records] ($).
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| [[United States Emigration and Immigration|United States Emigration and Immigration]] article lists several important sources for finding information about immigrants to this country. These nationwide sources include many references to people who settled in Tennessee. The [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] FamilySearch Wiki article introduces the principles, search strategies, and additional record types you can use to identify an immigrant ancestor’s original hometown.
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| See the [[Tennessee Archives and Libraries|Tennessee Archives and Libraries]] article for facilities with regional collections which might include emigration and immigration records. Other sources on emigration and immigration can be found in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:
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| == Web Sites == | | == Web Sites == |