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- A Brief History of Chinese Immigration to America - The struggles, hardships and successes of the Chinese immigrants to America beginning in mid-1800's to the present.
www.ailf.org/heritage/chinese/essay01.htm
- Bayou Genealogy.com - Dedicated to the preservation of the Cajun and Acadian Heritage. Genealogical records including military, civil war, war 1812 and various ships lists.
bayougenealogy.com
- British Home Children - Between 1870 and 1940, more than fifty child care organizations deported 100,000 alleged orphaned, abandoned, illegitimate, and impoverished children to Canada ostensibly to 'provide them with better lives than they would have had in England.'
charsnow.tripod.com/one
- Canadian Immigration and Citizenship - Canadian 1996 census tables tell which provinces and metropolitan areas the major immigrant groups live in.
www.statcan.ca/english/census96/nov4/nalis5.htm
- Danish Immigrant Museum - The mission of the Danish Immigrant Museum is to tell the story of Danish immigrants and the Danish American experience and is organized to collect, preserve, study and interpret their materials, culture and traditions.
dkmuseum.org
- Danish Immigration to America: An Annotated Bibliography of Resources - Research guide and annotated bibliography of Scandinavian and Danish Immigration, presented by the Library of Congress.
www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/bib_guid/danish.html
- Denmark -- The Escape to America - Nearly 150 years ago August and Ane Rasmussen said goodbye to relatives and friends in Sæby parish, Denmark. Many more Danes were to follow suit.
www.kalmus.dk/html/august.html
- Emslanders to the American Mid-West - Emigrants from that part of Hannover now known as Emsland, Niedersachsen, who settled in the American mid-western states of Missouri and Illinois.
www.emslanders.com
- Finnish Emigrant Tracking - Finnish and Scandinavian resources for emigration.
sydaby.eget.net/swe/emi_intro.htm
- Finnish Emigration and Immigration after World War II - Article with charts and graphs written by Jouni Korkiasaari & Ismo Söderling.
www.utu.fi/erill/instmigr/art/finn_migr.htm
- Iceland to North America - A tribute to all the people from Iceland who had for known or unknown reasons to search for a new life in a new country. The main purpose of this site is to help people of Icelandic origin to search for their roots in Iceland, their ancestors and living relatives.
www.itn.is/~halfdan/westward/vestur.htm
- Isola delle Femmine Connection - Covers the history, culture, and genealogy of the immigrants to the US from Isola delle Femmine, Sicily.
giamona.com
- Jewish Immigrant Culture - The mission of The Archive is to preserve the history and collective memory of the Jewish immigrant community from the former Soviet Union and to create an engaging environment for today's immigrant culture.
arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/efimova/archive/main/archive.html
- Migration Heritage Centre - The Migration Heritage Centre (MHC) provides opportunities for people to tell of their achievements, their struggles for belonging, of cultural change, traditions and adaptation, reconciliation and celebrations of survival.
www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au
- Norwegian-American Bygdelagenes Fellesraad - The national council for the 32 affiliated Norwegian-American bygdelag provides current information on, and links to each lag site.
www.fellesraad.com
- Palatines to America - A genealogy society dedicated to the study of ancestors from all German-speaking lands. Includes an immigrant ancestor search.
www.palam.org
- Poles to Australia - Polish-Australian website devoted to post World War II migration to Australia focusing on Polish immigration and settlement in Australia, together with vintage photos, reading lists and links.
www.geocities.com/terranova_au
- Polonia in Maryland - The Archives of Maryland Polonia was founded in 1982 to preserve, document and make available to researchers the history of Polish immigrants and people of Polish heritage in the State of Maryland. The archival collection consists of books, documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, genealogies, and correspondence.
ubmail.ubalt.edu/~thollowak/HOME.HTML
- Portuguese Historical Museum - Located in San Jose, this museum explores the celebrated traditions which helped make the immigrants' transition from the old world to the new easier by maintaining strong bonds to their heritage.
www.serve.com/phsc/index.shtml
- Southeast Asian Archive at UCI - The Archive collects materials relating to the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in the United States (and to a lesser extent, worldwide), the boat people and land refugees, and the culture and history of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. There is a special focus on materials pertaining to Southeast Asians in Orange County and California. Also provides links to similar collections.
www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/sasian.html
- Swedish Emigrant Institute - The national collection and museum on Swedish emigration history. Emigrant letters, diaries, photos and other documents from the emigration epoch (1846-1930).
www.svenskaemigrantinstitutet.g.se/eng.html
- Swedish Emigration - An article about mass emigration from Sweden and a list of links for emigration from other countries.
www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm
- Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center - A national archives and research institute for the study of Swedish immigration to North America.
www.augustana.edu/administration/SWENSON
- Texel, Netherlands - Emigrants to the US from the island of Texel in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1920, organized by surname.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texel/emigration.html
- The Cornish-American Connection - This web site is studying emigrants from Cornwall and is soliciting information from others.
www.chycor.co.uk/murdoch-house/connect1.htm
- The Hungarian Emigration Law of 1903 - Text of the law in 1903. Translated to English.
www.iarelative.com/hung1903/law_1903.htm
- Ukrainian Canadian Pioneer Days - Ukrainian Canadian pioneer days are celebrated in this homepage which features the humble churches built by hardy Ukrainian immigrants at the turn of the century.
home.echo-on.net/~nemmer/index.html
- Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village - This historic site tells the story of Ukrainian immigrants and the development of the Bloc Settlement in East Central Alberta from 1892 to 1930.
www.gov.ab.ca/mcd/mhs/uchv/uchv.htm
- Ukrainian Internment in Canada 1914-1920 - Canadian internment of Ukrainian Canadians in concentration camps during the period of 1914-1920.
www.infoukes.com/history/internment
- Vanasse Migration - The settlement of Vanasse families from Quebec to the United States, mostly to New England .
bvanasse.tripod.com/vanassemigration
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