Connecticut Emigration and Immigration
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How to Find the Records
The major port of entry to all of New England is Boston. See Massachusetts Immigration Online Genealogy Records.
Online Resources
- 1500s-1900s All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s at Ancestry; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut; Also at MyHeritage; index only ($)
- 1620-1635 New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
- 1789-1939 Mystic Seaport Index: Builders, Masters, and Owners
- 1804-1959 Connecticut, passenger and crew lists, 1804-1959 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
- 1820-1874 United States, Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index
- 1820-1873Copies of lists of passengers arriving at miscellaneous ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at ports on the Great Lakes, 1820-1873 at FamilySearch, images
- 1895-1956 United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956 at MyHeritge; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
- 1911-1954 United States, New England Passenger and Crew Lists, 1911-1954 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
- 1957-1962 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1957-1962 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild at MyHeritge; index only ($)
- United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - New England Passenger And Crew Lists at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
- United States, Passenger and Crew Lists - United States, Mystic Crew Lists at FindMyPast; index only ($)
Cultural Groups
- 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
- Germans Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
- Italians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritge; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
- Russians Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of Connecticut
Background
- Colonial settlers of Connecticut generally came from Great Britain and neighboring New England states.
- Many Irish and German immigrants began coming in the late 1840s.
- French-Canadian immigration began after the Civil War and continued through the rest of the nineteenth century.
- Late in the century most immigrants came from the southern and eastern countries of Europe, including Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.