Alabama Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

Connick, Lucille Mallon. ''Lists of Ships Passengers, Mobile, Alabama.'' Two Volumes. Mobile, Alabama: L.M. Connick, 1988. (Family History Library[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=976.122+W3c book 976.122 W3c].) Volume One has passenger lists for 1838 to 1840; Volume Two has lists for 1841 to 1860. These provide the ship’s name; the name of the ship’s captain or pilot; and the names of passengers, often with their age, country of birth, occupation, and residence.  

United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service. ''Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, 1890–1924''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, T0517. Washington, DC: Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1957. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=341257&disp=Index+to+passenger+lists+of+vessels+arri%20%20&columns=*,0,0 films 1324938–63].)  

United States. Bureau of Customs. ''Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820–1873.'' National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0575. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1964. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=66154&disp=Copies+of+lists+of+passengers+arriving+a%20%20&columns=*,0,0 film 830234].) The film includes portions of Mobile lists for 1832 and 1849 to 1852.  

United States. Bureau of Customs. ''A Supplemental Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Atlantic & Gulf Coast Ports (Excluding New York) 1820–1874.'' National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0334. Washington, DC: National Archives and Record Services, 1960. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=67478&disp=A+supplemental+index+to+passenger+lists+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 films 418161–348].) This film indexes Mobile passengers for 1832, 1849 to 1852.  

Potter, Dorothy Williams. ''Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770–1823: Indian, Spanish, and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina.'' Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1982. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=975+W4p book 975 W4p].) During the period from 1798 to 1819 Alabama was part of the Mississippi Territory. These records list people going from the Mississippi Territory elsewhere, or coming into the Mississippi Territory from other states. The records also mention people who obtained passports from the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee Indian agencies to pass through their land. The book is well indexed.