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==What are emigration records?== | ==What are emigration records?== | ||
'''Immigration''' refers to people coming into a country. '''Emigration''' refers to people leaving a country to go to another. The records usually take the form of ship's '''passenger lists''' collected at the port of entry. | '''Immigration''' refers to people coming into a country. '''Emigration''' refers to people leaving a country to go to another. The records usually take the form of ship's '''passenger lists''' collected at the port of entry. Immigration to a country and emigration from a country can involve the same record. Logically, a ship's passenger list is used to record people leaving a country on the ship (emigration) and arriving in another country on the ship (immigration). | ||
==What can you find in immigration and emigration records?== | ==What can you find in immigration and emigration records?== | ||
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===United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records=== | ===United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records=== | ||
Links to | Links to online immigration and emigration records for the U.S. have been collected and organized into a recommended search strategy in the Wiki article [[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records|'''United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records''']]. | ||
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===State or Country Online Genealogical Records Pages=== | ===State or Country Online Genealogical Records Pages=== | ||
On the main page for each U.S. State page and country page, a blue button leads to a listing of '''online record collections.''' | On the main page for each U.S. State page and country page, a blue button leads to a listing of '''online record collections.''' | ||
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===Finding Town of Origin Articles=== | |||
Frequently one of the research goals of using passenger lists is to link the family from their location in the new country to their town of origin in the "old country". Knowing the exact town where the family lived is important in locating further information, since records are kept on the local level. There are many records besides passenger lists that can give this information. The Wiki provides a series of articles that will teach you what is available. You can access them from this category page: [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Category:Finding_Town_of_Origin '''Category:Finding Town of Origin'''.] There is a link to them on each country page: | |||
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