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[ | [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration United States Emigration and Immigration ]>[[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] {{Adoption PARoots}} <br> | ||
The [[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 Pennsylvania. 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. | The [[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 Pennsylvania. 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. | ||
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In the 1870s Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. These included Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks. During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, blacks from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. | In the 1870s Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. These included Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks. During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, blacks from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. | ||
For an account of some of these groups see John E. Bodnar, ''The Ethnic Experience in Pennsylvania'' (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 1973; Family History Library book {{FHL|257844|title-id|disp=974.8 F2bo}}). | For an account of some of these groups see John E. Bodnar, ''The Ethnic Experience in Pennsylvania'' (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 1973; Family History Library book {{FHL|257844|title-id|disp=974.8 F2bo}}). | ||
=== Records === | === Records === | ||
The [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH23&CISOPTR=54515&REC=7 Israel Daniel Rupp Collection] of 30,000 Pennsylvania immigrants from 1727-1776 is online in PDF form at the Brigham Young University Family History Archives.<br> | The [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH23&CISOPTR=54515&REC=7 Israel Daniel Rupp Collection] of 30,000 Pennsylvania immigrants from 1727-1776 is online in PDF form at the Brigham Young University Family History Archives.<br> | ||
For the period 1792-1794, there is A Health Officer's Register of Passenger's Names at the State Archives (but not at the Family History Library) that lists the names of ship passengers. In Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2 vol. 17, pp. 521-667, is ''Names of Foreigners Arriving in Pennsylvania, 1786-1808'', which appears to be the same records covering a longer span of time. Some entries include place of birth. They are also included in Strassburger and Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, which is listed below. | For the period 1792-1794, there is A Health Officer's Register of Passenger's Names at the State Archives (but not at the Family History Library) that lists the names of ship passengers. In Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2 vol. 17, pp. 521-667, is ''Names of Foreigners Arriving in Pennsylvania, 1786-1808'', which appears to be the same records covering a longer span of time. Some entries include place of birth. They are also included in Strassburger and Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, which is listed below. | ||