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==Immigration Records== | ==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 [[Oklahoma Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | '''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 [[Oklahoma Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] Again, immigrants would have initially arrived at a port on the coast. To search those records, see [[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records|'''United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records.''']] | ||
===What can I find in them?=== | ===What can I find in them?=== | ||
====[[Oklahoma Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]==== | ====[[Oklahoma Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]==== | ||