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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 [[Tennessee 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 [[Tennessee Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]] | ||
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Again, Tennessee, being entirely inland, has no seaports. 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.''']] Most foreign-born immigrants arrived at the ports of '''New Orleans, New York, or other Atlantic and Gulf ports.''' The major port of entry for the Mississippi River was '''New Orleans.''' | |||
===What can I find in them?=== | ===What can I find in them?=== | ||
====[[Tennessee Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]==== | ====[[Tennessee Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]==== | ||