Kentucky Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10029/russians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Kentucky+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Kentucky

Pre-statehood settlers of Kentucky were mostly of [[England|English]], [[Germany|German]] and [[Northern Ireland|Ulster Scots]] descent who migrated from the Atlantic seaboard states. Immigrants from [[North Carolina, United States Genealogy|North Carolina]] and southwestern [[Virginia, United States Genealogy|Virginia]] came by way of the Cumberland Gap and over the [[Wilderness Road|Wilderness Road]]. Immigrants from [[Maryland, United States Genealogy|Maryland]] and [[Pennsylvania, United States Genealogy|Pennsylvania]] came on flatboats and rafts down the Ohio River from [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]].