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Online Resources
- 1500s-1900s All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s at Ancestry; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Georgia; Also at MyHeritage; index only ($)
- 1733-1783 The Germans of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783 at Ancestry; images only ($)
- 1890-1924 Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at ports in Georgia 1890-1924 at FamilySearch; images only
- 1895-1956 United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956 at MyHeritge; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Georgia
- 1895-1964 All U.S., Border Crossings from Mexico to U.S., 1895-1964 at Ancestry; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Georgia
- 1904-1939 Georgia, Brunswick Passenger Lists, 1904-1939 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
- 1904-1962 Georgia, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1904-1962 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
- 1906-1945 Georgia, Savannah Passenger Lists, 1906-1945 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
- 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Georgia
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild at MyHeritge; index only ($)
- United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records, list of nationwide databases
- Germans Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Georgia
- Italians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Georgia
- Russians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Georgia
People
Colonial settlers of Georgia generally came from the Carolinas, from Virginia, or directly from England and Scotland. The first large group of immigrants came from the British Isles to the Savannah area with James Oglethorpe in 1733. Though it was designed to be a penal colony, most English convicts were transported to Virginia and Maryland, rather than Georgia.[1]
The total non-native population of Georgia in 1752 has been estimated at 5,000. Small groups of Protestants from France, Switzerland, and what is now Germany. Religious groups included Moravians. The most important of these groups were the 1,500 Salzburgers who had settled at Ebenezer in present-day Effingham County beginning in 1734.
An important group of 350 Puritans from South Carolina, accompanied by 1,500 blacks, arrived in Georgia beginning in 1752. They first settled in the Midway District. Their ancestors had previously settled the towns of Dorchester in both Massachusetts and South Carolina. In 1758 these Puritans established the seacoast town of Sunbury.
Between 1802 and 1820 thousands of Americans moved to Georgia seeking free or inexpensive land. The Creek and Cherokee Indians were removed from the state before 1840.
Colonial Period
- Davis, Robert Scott. "Scottish and English Immigrants to the Georgia Frontier, 1774-1775," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 70 (1982):190-196. Digital version at National Genealogical Society website ($); FHL Book 973 B2ng v. 70 (1982).
Records of ethnic groups including Indians, Quakers, and Salzburgers are listed in the place search of the FamilySearch Catalog under the subject heading GEORGIA - MINORITIES. ==
Though they do not include names of passengers, records kept by the Colonial Office and stored at The National Archives (Kew, England), document ships' arrivals and departures from Georgia ports between 1752 and 1767. FamilySearch microfilmed these records. They are useful for learning about the history of ships entering the colony:
- Shippings Lists for Georgia, 1752-1767 FHL Film 964005.
Dr. Marianne S. Wokeck created a detailed list of "German Immigrant Voyages, 1683-1775" to Colonial America. Destinations include Georgia (1730s-1750s). She published the list in an Appendix to:
- Wokeck, Marianne S. Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. FHL Book 970 W2w.
British Naval Office Shipping Lists, 1678-1825, have been digitized by British Online Archives (site requires subscription). Names of passengers are not included.
References
- ↑ Peter Wilson Coldham, British Emigrants in Bondage; E. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America.
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