 06 April 1999 In this issue:
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New York Resources in the Online Store: Tulsa World (Oklahoma), Obituaries, 1990-1999 (Update) Founded two years before Oklahoma statehood in 1907, the "Tulsa World" newspaper serves the varied population of Osage and Tulsa counties. This database is a collection of some obituaries from the newspaper between 1990 and early 1999. Information provided often includes birth date and location, occupation, military service, surviving family members, and other biographical facts. Compiled by the UMI Company in connection with the newspaper, it contains almost 39,000 records and about 95,000 names. For questions regarding a particular obituary, inquiries can be directed to the newspaper, 318 S Main St #5, Tulsa, OK, 74103, (918) 583-2161. This database contains new material provided by the UMI Company and previously posted material under the title Tulsa World (Oklahoma), Obituaries, 1998. Bibliography: UMI Company. "Obituaries from the Tulsa World, 1990-1999." Orem, UT: Ancestry Inc., 1999.
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PASSENGER ARRIVAL LISTS
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What fires the imagination more than the image of our own immigrant ancestors first setting foot on American soil? Your family's arrival in the United States is an important part of your personal history. There may be a passenger arrival list that shows your ancestor's name-and hopefully a lot more about him or her. For most ships entering U.S. ports between 1565 and 1954, a passenger list was compiled. While not all passenger lists have survived, most extant lists included the name of the ship, the captain's name, the port and date of the ship's departure, and the port and date of arrival in the U.S. Additionally, passenger lists included a roster of the passengers with varying amounts of identifying information. Passenger arrival lists can be among the most valuable sources for documenting our ancestors' immigration. While the content of passenger lists has changed significantly over the years, these much-sought records are in great demand by demographers, historians, genealogists, and even those with just a casual interest in their heritage. Official U.S. government passenger arrival lists are available from 1820 (when the government first kept passenger lists) through 1945 for most of the ports in the United States with customs houses. Those available in the National Archives on microfilm are tabulated in "Immigration and Passenger Arrivals: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilms." The lists are divided into customs passenger lists (original lists, copies, or abstracts) and immigration passenger lists (State Department transcripts and lists) with pertinent indexes. Microfilm copies are also available for searching at the Family History Library and its family history centers located throughout the United States. Selected passenger lists are available at some public and genealogical libraries. The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for example, has a large collection of passenger list microfilms. For pre-1820 official lists, researchers must rely on surviving ship cargo manifests. Many colonial and U.S. ports kept copies of manifests filed as a requirement for clearance. The existing manifests have been scattered among archives, museums, and other historical agencies, but most have been reproduced in published form and are indexed in P. William Filby's "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index." While at least some passenger lists have been indexed for virtually every U.S. port, a large number remain unindexed. As with other government documents, passenger lists were not intended to be genealogical documents, but rather were a means of monitoring immigrant arrivals. Historically, up to seven different passenger lists were created and perhaps more for some groups of passengers. These include lists made and filed with:
- Ports of call along the route - The port of arrival - Newspapers at the port of departure - Newspapers at the cities of arrival - A copy kept with or as part of the ship's manifest - Notations in the ship's log ANCESTRY.COM IMMIGRANT DATABASES
Ship Passenger Lists, Port of New York
Passenger Arrivals in the Unites States, 1819-1820
Original Lists-Persons of Quality (1600-1700)
Early American Immigrations
Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-66
Founders of New England
Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania German Pioneers
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, all 7 volumes
Naturalizations in America and the West Indies
Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674
Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century
New York Chinese Exclusion Index
Early San Francisco Chinese Exclusion List
Hawaii Chinese Exclusion List ONLINE PASSENGER ARRIVAL RECORDS & RESEARCH GUIDES
NARA's Guide to Immigration Records
Ancestry's Guide to Ship Passenger Records
Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources
Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild
Ship's Passenger Lists & Indexes
Arnie's Guide to Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists
Olive Tree Genealogy - Ships Lists
Palatines to America Online Immigrant Ancestor Index
Irish Genealogical Society, Intl. - Irish Passenger Lists
ODESSA - Ship and Immigration Records
inGeneas (Canadian) MORE RESOURCES IN THE ONLINE STORE
"They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival
Record,"
"They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic ",
"Ships of Our Ancestors,"
Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals
Passenger Ships Arriving in New York Harbor Volume 1, 1820-1850
LDS Emigrant Roster and Voyage History FAMILYHISTORY.COM HAS 200,000 PAGE VIEWS IN ONE DAY On Saturday, April 3, Ancestry.com's new service, FamilyHistory.com reached over 200,000 page views for the day. There are now over 5,160 messages posted on FamilyHistory.com and this number promises to go much higher in the upcoming weeks. A new enhancement now links message boards to Ancestry.com's Global Search. This means that any posts to the message boards can now be accessed quickly and easily by visitors searching the Ancestry.com site. This additional exposure will make it even easier for researchers to connect with one another and exchange valuable information. Visitors to FamilyHistory.com also have ready access to the Ancestry World Tree, a massive collection of family pedigree information donated and freely shared by visitors to the Ancestry.com site. The Ancestry World Tree, the largest free collaborative database of its kind on the Internet, now includes information on more than 10 million individual ancestors. The Ancestry World Tree, established less than two years ago, has become a favorite resource of online genealogists because of Ancestry.com's pledge to always make it available free of charge. In launching FamilyHistory.com, the company is extending its pledge to also include all information posted in any of the FamilyHistory.com message boards. The objective of Ancestry.com is to provide as much searchable information as possible for the genealogical community, which includes free, user-generated content. Ancestry.com has launched FamilyHistory.com to demonstrate its continued commitment to the exchange of genealogical information.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
"Over four hundred years, from the 1500s through the 1900s, they came to America in the millions . . . our ancestors! From Europe, Africa, and Asia, from Central and South America, they came in ships-steamships and sailing vessels arriving along the shores of the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes. And millions of these immigrant arrivals are recorded in surviving ship passenger lists." John P. Colletta, Ph.D.,
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