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=====Ports in NARA Records===== | =====Ports in NARA Records===== | ||
====U.S. Citizenship and and Immigration Services Genealogy Program==== | ====U.S. Citizenship and and Immigration Services Genealogy Program==== | ||
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Telephone: 701-223-6167<br> | Telephone: 701-223-6167<br> | ||
The focus is on the Black Sea and Bessarabian Germans with assistance for the Caucasus, Crimea and other regions close to the Black Sea, with some help for other areas as well. | The focus is on the Black Sea and Bessarabian Germans with assistance for the Caucasus, Crimea and other regions close to the Black Sea, with some help for other areas as well. | ||
==Finding Town of Origin== | |||
Records in the countries emigrated from are kept on the local level. You must first identify the '''name of the town''' where your ancestors lived to access those records. If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it. | |||
*[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']] | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*Pre-statehood settlers of [[North Dakota Genealogy|North Dakota]] generally came from '''Norway, Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, and Iowa.''' | *Pre-statehood settlers of [[North Dakota Genealogy|North Dakota]] generally came from '''Norway, Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, and Iowa.''' | ||
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*When North Dakota became a state in 1889, about 70 percent of the total population were either foreign-born or the children of foreign-born parents. | *When North Dakota became a state in 1889, about 70 percent of the total population were either foreign-born or the children of foreign-born parents. | ||
*Immigrants from overseas also made up a large part of the '''second Dakota boom''', which lasted from about 1898 to 1915. At the end of this period, '''Norwegian immigrants''' comprised about 20 percent of the state population, and '''ethnic Germans, including Germans from Russia''', another 20 percent. *There were substantial numbers of Canadians of '''English and Celtic origin, Swedes, Danes, Czechs, and many smaller European groups'''. | *Immigrants from overseas also made up a large part of the '''second Dakota boom''', which lasted from about 1898 to 1915. At the end of this period, '''Norwegian immigrants''' comprised about 20 percent of the state population, and '''ethnic Germans, including Germans from Russia''', another 20 percent. *There were substantial numbers of Canadians of '''English and Celtic origin, Swedes, Danes, Czechs, and many smaller European groups'''. | ||
==Immigration Records== | |||
'''Immigration''' refers to people coming into a country. '''Emigration''' refers to people leaving a country to go to another. Immigration records usually take the form of ship's '''passenger lists''' collected at the port of entry. See [[Maryland Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | |||
===What can I find in them?=== | |||
====[[Maryland Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]==== | |||
*'''Before 1820''' - Passenger lists before 1820 included '''name, departure information and arrival details'''. The names of wives and children were often not included. | |||
*'''1820-1891''' - Customs Passenger Lists between 1820 and 1891 asked for '''each immigrant’s name, their age, their sex, their occupation, and their country of origin''', but not the city or town of origin. | |||
*'''1891-1954''' - Information given on passenger lists from 1891 to 1954 included: | |||
**name, age, sex, | |||
**nationality, occupation, marital status, | |||
**last residence, final destination in the U.S., | |||
**whether they had been to the U.S. before (and if so, when, where and how long), | |||
**if joining a relative, who this person was, where they lived, and their relationship, | |||
**whether able to read and write, | |||
**whether in possession of a train ticket to their final destination, who paid for the passage, | |||
**amount of money the immigrant had in their possession, | |||
**whether the passenger had ever been in prison, a poorhouse, or in an institution for the insane, | |||
**whether the passenger was a polygamist, | |||
**and immigrant's state of health. | |||
*'''1906--''' - In 1906, the '''physical description and place of birth''' were included, and a year later, the '''name and address of the passenger’s closest living relative in the country of origin''' was included. | |||
====[[Maryland Emigration and Immigration#Passport Records Online|Information in Passports]] ==== | |||
Over the years, passports and passport applications contained different amounts of information about the passport applicant. The first passports that are available begin in 1795. These usually contained the individual's name, description of individual, and age. More information was required on later passport applications, such as: | |||
*Birthplace | |||
*Birth date | |||
*Naturalization information | |||
*Arrival information, if foreign born | |||
==In-country Migration== | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Category:Migration_Routes LIST OF ROUTES] | |||
==For Further Reading== | |||
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== References == | == References == | ||