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US National Archives

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:52:15 +0000

If your ancestors – or members of their family – emigrated to the USA in the nineteenth century, you may find that the US National Archives have information about their arrival.

The excellent Access to Archival Databases facility has a vast number of subjects. By no means all of them are directly relevant to genealogical research, but a fair few are. Here are the best examples, but there are others – and it’s worth keeping an eye on the list from time to time to see what else is being added:

Germans to America Passenger Data File, 1850-1897
Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File, 1846-1851
Italians to America Passenger Data File, 1855-1900
Russians to America Passenger Data File, 1834 – 1897

(NB Poland was divided between the German, Russian and Austrian Empires in the 19th century, so if you have Polish ancestors who emigrated during that time you may well find themin the German or Russian records.)

You can find out more at the US National Archives Access to Archival Databases home page:
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/

Introduction to Genealogy

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:14:47 +0000

The article actually relates to an introduction to Italian genealogy but there’s so much useful information that much of it is relevant to anyone who wants to research their family history or begin some genealogy research.

It discusses the various disciplines of genealogy, busts some myths about the Garibaldi family, and suggests ways to research the history and culture of your genealogy.

If that’s not enough for you, you can browse the rest of their website, which has loads of information and resources for genealogists. This one is well worth a look!

For more information see:
http://italiangenealogy.tardio.com/News/article/sid=3.html

Emigrant Letters

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:48:10 +0000

Letters written by emigrants are a useful source of information for genealogists. If you can trace your family history back to Ireland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden or Poland you might find some help here.

EMILE is a project about the importance of emigrant letters as a historical source. Their website contains lots of interesting information, including an excellent article about why these letters are such an important and useful resource.

For more information see:
http://www.emigrantletters.com/

Italian Databanks

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:40:50 +0000

This website provides information about Italian emigrants to the United States, Argentina, and Brazil. You can read it in English, Italian, Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese.

The Centro di documentazione sulle popolazioni e le culture italiane nel mondo (Centre for Documentation on Italian populations and cultures in the world), set up by the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in 1993, offers three separate data banks containing the transcription of the information contained in the passenger lists of the ships that arrived in New York, Buenos Aires and Vitoria (Italian nationals only).

For more information see:
http://www.italians-world.org/Italy/BancaDatiGb.htm

CO.AS.IT – Italian Assistance Association

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:07:29 +0000

CO.AS.IT. was established in 1967 to provide a range of social welfare services in response to the needs of the Italian migrant settlers in Australia.

Dig deep enough in their website and you can find some interesting information here – information about the Italian Historical Society, for example. Look out also for the link to their library.

The Library holds 2,500 volumes of books, periodicals, and rare and out-of-print publications dealing with the history of migration, multiculturalism and Italian and Australian migration policy. Also available is a collection of newspaper cuttings and other printed material filed by subject.

For more information:
http://www.coasit.com.au/