Pennsylvania Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

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}}.