Tracing Irish Immigrants in New York City Part 2
Millions of Irish emigrants left Ireland and entered the United States through New York City. While the focus of this presentation is finding the place of origin or names of parents for Irish immigrants to New York City, the concepts discussed may apply to other big cities as well. This second presentation will focus on tracing Irish immigrants to New York in the following records sets: court records, naturalization, census, jury, WWII draft registrations, city directories, newspapers, probate records, cemeteries, archives and digital collections.
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Stories from Ellis Island: Exploring the Immigrant Journey Through Manifests
While they may look straightforward, passenger manifests include a bounty of information about each traveler's journey to America, as well as their lives before and after arrival.In this class, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation’s Family History Center experts shed light on some of the more curious pieces of information included on arrival manifests:- Understand why certain names are crossed out and why some immigrants were detained.- Learn how stowaways were represented on manifests.- Discover what happened when babies were born at sea and steps taken when tragedy struck, and passengers died on the long voyage to the United States.- Finally be convinced that names were not changed at Ellis Island!