Ohio Emigration and Immigration
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Online Resources
- 1500s-1900s All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s at Ancestry; index only ($); Also at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Ohio
- 1894-1954 United States, Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1894-1954 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
- 1895-1956 United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Ohio
- 1929-1958 Ohio, Crew List Arrivals, 1929-1958 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
- 1952-1963 Ohio, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1952-1963 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
- 1952-1974 Ohio, Passenger and Crew Lists arriving at Ashtabula and Conneaut, 1952-1974 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
Cultural Groups
- 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Ohio
- The Wales-Ohio Project.
- Germans Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Ohio
- Italians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Ohio
- Russians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Ohio
Wales-Ohio Project
- The Wales-Ohio Project goal is to digitize a selection of Welsh Heritage pertaining to the state of Ohio held at The National Library of Wales and to make it available to audiences world-wide. This collection includes a variety of manuscripts, letters, photographs and maps concerning the history of Welsh Settlers.
Background
- Pre-statehood settlers of Ohio generally came from Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey.
- By 1850, immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and England traveled on Zanes's Trace, the National Road, various canals, and Indian trails. [1]The Origin and Distribution of Settlement Groups <ref>Wilhelm, Hubert G. H. The Origin and Distribution of Settlement Groups. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, 1982. {{FHL|164152|item|disp=FHL fich
Additional Research Helps
Records and books on the Irish, Germans, Blacks, and American Indians are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under
- OHIO - MINORITIES.
Records of small groups of Alsatians, Russians, Norwegians, and Welsh are listed under
- OHIO - EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.
References
- ↑ Ohio, Trailways to Highways 1776-1976. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977. FHL film 1015821 item 2
- The Western Reserve in northeast Ohio was heavily settled by New Englanders.
- Settlers in the Virginia Military District of southwest Ohio were mostly from Virginia and Kentucky.
- Scotch-Irish and Germans settled in the east and south part of Ohio>
- The Irish most often settled in cities.
- The Germans tended to choose farms in rural areas.
- Many immigrants from England, France, Canada, Wales, and Scotland moved to Ohio between 1850 and 1880. In 1880, 15 percent of Ohio's people were foreign born.
- Until 1914, Italians, Russian Jews, Slovenes, Hungarians, and Poles were attracted to Cleveland and cities in northeastern Ohio.
- Today, about 10 percent of Ohio's population is African American.
- Norwegian Settlements were an important part of the Ohio landscape.