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On the Web
- Emigration, Ship Lists and Resources - Over 120 links for passenger lists and various immigration resources.
- Family Search: Tracing Immigrant Origins - Introduces the principles of research, search strategies, and the various record types which can be used to identify an immigrant ancestor's original hometown.
- Immigration: The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope - Covers several different ethnic groups' introduction to the U.S. Includes timeline of immigration, personal stories of both immigrants and workers at Ellis Island, and a discussion of The Statue of Liberty.
- The Compass - References immigration information with an emphasis on passenger lists, ships, and emigrant databases.
- Immigrants to Canada in the Nineteenth Century - Voyage accounts, emigration information, lists of ships sailing to Canada, information on the ports, and on the people. Extracted from government and shipping records.
- AHSGR Ships and Immigration - Passenger list extracts with an emphasis on German immigrants.
- Genealogy Quest Immigration Collection - Selected ships passenger lists provided free by a commercial genealogical service.
- Yorkshire Emigration - Yorkshire men and women emigrating to the New World in the 1700s.
- Angel Island Immigration Station - Historical information about Angel Island State Park in California, site of the Immigration Station, a National Historic Landmark, which played a role in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
- Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists Research Guide - Arnie Lang's research guide for immigration records and passenger lists.
Wikipedia Articles
- Immigration to Greece - Greece is largely an ethnically homogeneous state, and throughout the early period of it's modern history it experienced emigration far more than immigration, particularly throughout the mid 20th century owing to the Greek Civil War and The Second World War (around 12% of the Greek population emigrated from 1881-1951).Immigration to Greece during the 1990s: An Overview, Maria Siadama The only previous (prior to 1990) examples of large scale ...
- Emigration - Emigration is the act and the phenomenon of leaving one's native country or region to settle in another. It is the same as immigration but from the perspective of the country of origin.
- Orderly Departure Program - The Orderly Departure Program (ODP) was a program to permit immigration of Vietnamese refugees to the United States of America, instituted in 1979 under the auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Later, following normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the United States enacted legislation and established direct communication with the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to facilitate emigration from Vietnam under the program.
- Population decline - Population decline is the reduction over time in a region's census. It can be caused for several reasons; notable ones include sub-replacement fertility (along with limited immigration), heavy emigration, disease, famine, and war.
- Aliyah - Aliyah (Hebrew: עלייה, "ascent" or "going up") is Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel). The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is called Yerida ("descent").