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 *However, most pre-statehood settlers were Americans of '''English and Ulster Scots origin'''. They came mainly from '''Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois'''.
 *Latter-day Saint immigrants settled western Missouri in 1831 but were driven from the state in 1839.
+*Both the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail began at Independence, Missouri. Many Missourians followed these trails westward to California, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas. In spite of this emigration from the state, Missouri was the fifth most populous state in the United States at the close of the Civil War.
-If your ancestor was an early settler in Southwest Missouri, Rising's books likely discuss your family and it's origin:
+*Overseas immigration to Missouri began in earnest in the 1830s, when large numbers of '''Germans''' began to settle the farm country west of St. Louis and south of the Missouri River known as the '''"Missouri Rhineland."'''
+*Beginning in the 1840s, '''German and Irish immigrants''' settled in urban centers.
-*Rising, Marsha Hoffman. ''Opening the Ozarks: First Families in Southwest Missouri, 1835-1839.'' 4 vols. Derry, N.H.: American Society of Genealogists, 2005. {{FHL|1326260|item|disp=FHL Books 977.8 D2rm v. 1-4}}.
+*After 1880, St. Louis and Kansas City attracted groups of '''Italians, Greeks, Poles, and east European Jews'''. The [http://www.slcl.org/content/westliche-post-death-notice-index-1878-1892 St. Louis Public Library] has a collection of death notices from 1878-1892 taken from a German newspaper called [http://www.rtbot.net/Westliche_Post Westliche Post] has a helpful website with obits of German emigrants to Missouri.
-Rising learned that most early settlers in this section of Missouri had moved there from [[Tennessee, United States Genealogy|Tennessee]].
-Both the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail began at Independence, Missouri. Many Missourians followed these trails westward to California, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas. In spite of this emigration from the state, Missouri was the fifth most populous state in the United States at the close of the Civil War.
-The [http://www.octa-trails.org/ Oregon-California Trails Association] is an educational organization that promotes the story of the westward migration from Missouri, among other places. Their site includes a personal name index to trail diaries, journals, reminiscences, autobiographies, newspaper articles, guidebooks and letters at [http://www.paper-trail.org Paper-trail.org]
-Overseas immigration to Missouri began in earnest in the 1830s when large numbers of Germans began to settle the farm country west of St. Louis and south of the Missouri River known as the "Missouri Rhineland." Beginning in the 1840s German and Irish immigrants settled in urban centers. After 1880, St. Louis and Kansas City attracted groups of Italians, Greeks, Poles, and east European Jews. The [http://www.slcl.org/content/westliche-post-death-notice-index-1878-1892 St. Louis Public Library] has a collection of death notices from 1878-1892 taken from a German newspaper called [http://www.rtbot.net/Westliche_Post Westliche Post] has a helpful website with obits of German emigrants to Missouri.
-An especially helpful description of settlement patterns in Missouri is in Milton D. Rafferty, ''Historical Atlas of Missouri'' (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982) {{FHL|243871|item|disp=FHL book 977.8 E7r}}).
-Before the Civil War the Ohio-Mississippi-Missouri river system was the major migration route to Missouri. New Orleans was the favorite port of entry for early German immigrants to Missouri. After the war, most settlers came by railroad through the lower midwestern states. To find an immigrant ancestor, you may want to check ship passenger lists for East Coast ports and for the Port of New Orleans.
 ==Immigration Records==