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Sea Venture departed London England 1609 for Virginia
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776Coldham, Peter Wilson. and Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. With approximately 140,000 names, this Family Archive contains the most comprehensive list ever published of the men, women, and children who emigrated from England to America between 1607 and 1776. It includes the texts of six books by Peter Wilson Coldham: The Complete Book of Emigrants (four volumes), along with The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage and its supplement.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s - 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,588,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from original passenger lists, personal diaries etc. The following genealogical data is often found for each ancestor: name, age, year and place of arrival, and source of the record
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Naturalization Records are a great way to find an ancestor's arrival year and ship name!
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Did you know that Immigration means To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native and that Emigration means To leave one country or region to settle in another
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