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 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. {{Indexing badge
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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.
 For an account of some of these groups see John E. Bodnar, ''The Ethnic Experience in Pennsylvania'' (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania&nbsp;: Bucknell University Press, 1973; Family History Library book {{FHL|257844|item|disp=FHL book 974.8 F2bo}}.
-=== Records === The [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH23&amp;CISOPTR=54515&amp;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. Philadelphia has been a major port of entry for European immigrants since the seventeenth century. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of passenger arrival records from the National Archives, including: *Indexes,1800-1882, 1883-1948, 1906-1926 *Lists, 1800-1906, 1883-1921 Pennsylvania passenger lists for 1 July 1948 to 30 November 1954 were destroyed before they were microfilmed. More detailed information on immigration sources is in the [[United States Emigration and Immigration|United States Emigration and Immigration]] Wiki article. Over 200,000 names of immigrants and naturalized aliens in Pennsylvania are indexed in the following source: Filby, P. William. ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index''. {{FHL|1107338|title-id|disp=15 vols.}} Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1981-. {{FHL|291926|item|disp=FHL book 973.W32p}} The first three volumes are a combined alphabetical index published in 1981. Supplemental volumes have been issued annually. There are also cumulative 1982 to 1985, 1986 to 1900, and 1991 to 1997 supplements. These volumes index names of colonial immigrants listed in published sources. See also: A large alphabetically-arranged 54 volume manuscript collection at the Chester County Historical Society is Albert C. Meyers, comp., ''Notes on Immigrants to Pennsylvania, 1681-1737'' (on 14 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|567010|item|disp=FHL film 567010 item 2}}. ''Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists'' from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. {{FHL|285057|item|disp=FHL book 974.8 W3t}}. Bentley, Elizabeth P., an''d Michael H. Tepper.''Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. {{FHL|383565|item|disp=FHL book 974.811 W3p}} Coldham, Peter Wilson. ''The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 and Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775''. [Novato, California]: Brøderbund Software, 1996. (Family History Library compact disc no. 9 pt. 350). Not available at Family History Centers. A comprehensive list of about 140,000 immigrants to America from Britain. Includes Pennsylvania immigrants. It may show British hometown, emigration date, ship, destination, and text of the document abstract. Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, and William John Hinke. ''Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. ''Norristown, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934.''(Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings and Addresses; v. 42-44.)'' {{FHL|1031370|item|disp=FHL book 974.8 B4pg, vols. 42 and 44}}; {{FHL|1031370|item|disp=FHL film 1035683 item 5}}; {{FHL|1031370|item|disp=FHL fiche 6051507 (first of 10 fiche}} Records of major ethnic groups are listed in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under PENNSYLVANIA - EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION, and under PENNSYLVANIA - MINORITIES. See also [[Pennsylvania Minorities]]. Published studies include those for the Schwenkfelder, Quaker, Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Amish, and Huguenot groups. Many passenger lists are now available on the internet. Use a search engine with "Pennsylvania Passenger Lists" terms to identify currently available lists.
+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. Philadelphia has been a major port of entry for European immigrants since the seventeenth century. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of passenger arrival records from the National Archives, including: *Indexes,1800-1882, 1883-1948, 1906-1926 *Lists, 1800-1906, 1883-1921 Pennsylvania passenger lists for 1 July 1948 to 30 November 1954 were destroyed before they were microfilmed. More detailed information on immigration sources is in the [[United States Emigration and Immigration|United States Emigration and Immigration]] Wiki article. Over 200,000 names of immigrants and naturalized aliens in Pennsylvania are indexed in the following source: Filby, P. William. ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index''. {{FHL|1107338|title-id|disp=15 vols.}} Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1981-. {{FHL|291926|item|disp=FHL book 973.W32p}} The first three volumes are a combined alphabetical index published in 1981. Supplemental volumes have been issued annually. There are also cumulative 1982 to 1985, 1986 to 1900, and 1991 to 1997 supplements. These volumes index names of colonial immigrants listed in published sources. See also: A large alphabetically-arranged 54 volume manuscript collection at the Chester County Historical Society is Albert C. Meyers, comp., ''Notes on Immigrants to Pennsylvania, 1681-1737'' (on 14 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|567010|item|disp=FHL film 567010 item 2}}. ''Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists'' from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. {{FHL|285057|item|disp=FHL book 974.8 W3t}}.
+Bentley, Elizabeth P., and Michael H. Tepper.''Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819''. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. {{FHL|383565|item|disp=FHL book 974.811 W3p}}
+*Coldham, Peter Wilson. ''The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 and Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775''. [Novato, California]: Brøderbund Software, 1996. (Family History Library compact disc no. 9 pt. 350). Not available at Family History Centers. A comprehensive list of about 140,000 immigrants to America from Britain. Includes Pennsylvania immigrants. It may show British hometown, emigration date, ship, destination, and text of the document abstract.
+*Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, and William John Hinke. ''Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. ''Norristown, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934.''(Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings and Addresses; v. 42-44.)'' {{FHL|1031370|item|disp=FHL book 974.8 B4pg, vols. 42 and 44}}; {{FHL|1031370|item|disp=FHL film 1035683 item 5}}; {{FHL|1031370|item|disp=FHL fiche 6051507 (first of 10 fiche}}
+*Records of major ethnic groups are listed in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under PENNSYLVANIA - EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION, and under PENNSYLVANIA - MINORITIES. See also [[Pennsylvania Minorities]]. Published studies include those for the Schwenkfelder, Quaker, Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Amish, and Huguenot groups. Many passenger lists are now available on the internet. Use a search engine with "Pennsylvania Passenger Lists" terms to identify currently available lists.
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