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American passenger arrival records

by Tepper, Michael
Published by : Genealogical Pub. Co (Baltimore) Physical details: 134 p. ISBN:0-8063-1224-6. Year: 1988
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Item type Current location Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
900 - 999 929.1072073 Tep (Browse shelf) Available Memorial 62238

The Colonial period --
The Beginning of federal passenger arrival records --
Customs passenger lists --
Immigratin passenger lists

Lured by opportunity or driven by necessity, millions of people made their way to America in the most determined and sustained migration the world has ever known. Initially they left traces of their immigration in scattered records and documents; later, their arrival in this country was documented so minutely that the records resulting from this documentation are among the largest, the most continuous, and the most uniform in the nation's archives ...