US AND LDS IMMIGRATION
©2012 by Donald R. Snow
- Welcome and Announcements
- Introduction to Immigration Records
- Important Immigration Databases and Information
- Additional Immigration Information
- Conclusion
This page was last updated 2012-07-17 for class on 2012-07-18.
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WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
- These classes are free and usually on 1st
and 3rd Wednesdays, 1-2:30 PM in Provo. See the schedule in
the E9 Ward Bulletin and on the website http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
where the notes are stored. You can set an icon on your
desktop to go to the schedule and notes page directly. Each
class is independent, so attend when you can. Instructors
are Donald R. and Diane M. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu
, dmsnow34@gmail.com .
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you were.
- Don and Diane's classes coming up
- Wed 2012-08-01, 1-2:30 PM -- Digitizing
and Transcribing Audio Files -- at Family History Update
Class, Provo
- Thu 2012-08-02, 11 am-noon -- Your
Personal Genealogy Library: Family History Books Online --
at BYU 2012 Conference on
Family History and Genealogy, 31 Jul - 3 Aug 2012, Provo,
Utah
- Fri 2012-08-03, 11 am-noon -- The
Best Things in Life are Free: Freeware for Family History --
at BYU 2012 Conference on
Family History and Genealogy, 31 Jul - 3 Aug 2012, Provo,
Utah
- Wed 2012-08-15, 1-2 :30 PM -- Freeware
for Family History -- at Family History Update Class, Provo
- Wed 2012-09-05, 1-2 :30 PM -- Picasa
and Photo FilmStrip to Organize and Present Your Photos
-- at Family History Update Class, Provo
- Sat 2012-09-15, 10 am-noon -- What
to do with a Letter Collection Using Erastus Snow's Family
Letters as an Illustration -- at Riverton
FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
- Wed 2012-09-19, 1-2:30 PM -- Genealogy
a la Google -- at Family History Update Class, Provo
- FamilySearch Family Tree interface for your nFS data
- Use your LDS account and sign up (just need to do this once) at https://familysearch.org/invite/familytree_tab -- Then when you sign
in on https://www.familysearch.org
(upper right hand corner) with your LDS account you see a new tab
called "Family Tree" which takes you to the new interface to
nFS
- Helpful 9-Generation Pedigree Fan Chart of your nFS data -- http://www.createfan.com/ -- use your LDS
Account to log in -- Can generate a 9-generation chart for anyone
in nFS by going to http://www.treeseek.com , log in with your
LDS account, and enter their PID (their nFS Personal Identifier
number) in the box
- New BYU 20-Minute Genealogist -- https://twenty.byu.edu/
-- Log in with your LDS Account and see a chart of your FS FT data
with whose data and ordinances are complete and whose aren't
- 1940 US Census was released recently (2 Apr 2012) and anyone 72 or
older and in the US in 1940 should be in it. It's already more
than half indexed on FamilySearch; images are posted several places
including http://1940census.archives.gov/
-- To find people without the index, since they might be indexed wrong
(as DRS is), you can first find the Enumeration District at http://www.stevemorse.org
. Everyone can help index the 1940 US Census by signing up
at
http://the1940census.com/?cid=fsHomeT1940Plt .
- Today's FH Update Class is on US and LDS immigration to help you
verify, fill out families, and find stories of your ancestors
INTRODUCTION TO IMMIGRATION RECORDS
- Definitions: emigration = out; immigration = in; migration
= both in, out, and travel within; but all are sometimes used
interchangeably
- Immigration info helps organize, verify, extend, and complete your
home database and in nFS
- May show family members traveling together, additional family
members, friends, origins, destinations; also returning LDS
missionaries, so you may find ancestors in immigration
databases even though not immigrants
- Most immigrant ancestors are those born outside the US, but died
in the US -- can search your home database for these to get a
partial list of your immigrant ancestors
- US censuses 1900 through 1930 included year of immigration;
1940 only asked whether born in US
IMPORTANT IMMIGRATION DATABASES AND INFORMATION
- PowerPoints of immigration records
- "Isle of Hope" sung by the Irish Tenors
- Examples from databases
- Ellis Island New York 1892-1924 -- http://www.ellisisland.org/
-- 90% of US immigrants before about 1950 came through Ellis Island
and about 40% of US have at least one immigrant ancestor coming
through Ellis Island
- Castle Garden New York 1820-1892 -- http://www.castlegarden.org/
- Ancestry's Immigration Index and Collection -- http://ancestry.com
-- available at FHC's
- New York Passenger Lists 1820-1910
- US Passport Applications
- Filby's Immigration Index 1500s-1900s -- references from
published sources to immigrants
- Mormon Migration website (crossing the oceans) 1841-1900 -- http://lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/
- LDS companies of converts immigrating to America --
includes names, companies, ships, dates of immigration, plus
quotes from documents and journals of fellow passengers
- Includes data from and supersedes the old Mormon
Immigration Index CD from LDS Church Distribution Centers; ;
constantly being updated
- Search brings back passenger name as well as quotations
from documents and journals mentioning him
- Mormon Pioneer Overland Travels (Crossing the Plains)
1847-1868 -- http://lds.org >
Menu - The Church, History > Mormon Pioneers
- Information at http://www.lds.org/ch/pdf/CH_Overland_Database_Brochure.pdf
and from FamilySearch Wiki (Learn) at
Mormon
Pioneer Overland Travel From 1847 to 1868
- LDS companies crossing the plains -- includes
names, companies, ships, dates of immigration, plus
quotes from documents and journals of fellow passengers;
constantly being updated -- Parentheses after
names in search results are ages at the time
- Some journals now available on http://www.lds.org
from Church History Library -- released on DVD's in Selected
Collections several years ago, but now posted online --
Example: Erastus Snow's account of entering the Salt
Lake Valley with Orson Pratt on 21 Jul 1847 ahead
of Brigham Young's Company -- see Erastus
Snow's Journals > 1847 Apr-Dec > 27 Jun 1847-2
Aug 1847 > Image 92
- Melvin L. Bashore of Church Historian's Office is also
compiling "Crossing the Plains Index Database" -- info at http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/resources.htm
- BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project -- http://immigrants.byu.edu/
-- finding emigrants leaving Europe using Euroean records, not
US entry records
- Early LDS database 1830-1900 -- http://earlylds.com/
-- was one of Don and Diane Snow's assignments in
Nauvoo Mission -- many LDS immigration
examples
ADDITIONAL IMMIGRATION INFORMATION
- LDS and Utah immigration from FamilySearch Wiki (Learn) -- LDS
Emigration and Immigration -- also free courses on US
immigration and citizenship -- https://familysearch.org/
> Learn > Research Courses > Migration and Citizenship
> Unites States
- Books online -- Latter-day
Saint Church Emigration and Church
Chronology by Andrew Jenson, Church Historian
- Nauvoo
Databank -- available in a few FHC's -- lots of
information and stories about LDS
- Maps of the Mormon Trek Westward --
http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pioneer/pioneerstory.htm
- Tracing Mormon Pioneers web page --
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer.htm
- Perpetual Emigrating Fund (sometimes incorrectly called
Perpetual Emigration Fund) -- information from FamilySearch
Wiki and from FSC Names
of Persons and Sureties Indebted to the Perpetual Emigrating
Fund Company from 1850 to 1877 Inclusive (FHL film #25686)
-- pdf copy at Mormon
Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 2000, 141-242
- Mormon immigration info, passenger lists, ships, etc. -- http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer_search3.htm
- Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 --
journals and letters in BYU Library -- http://overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu/
- Steve Morse's One-Step search engines for Ellis Island, Castle
Garden, and many other US ports -- http://www.stevemorse.org
- See additional immigration links in Don's notes TRACING
YOUR US IMMIGRANT RELATIVE at http://uvtagg.org/
> Class Outlines > Don's Listings or directly at
http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-tracing.html
CONCLUSION
- Lots of good data and stories in these websites for family
nights, talks, and family reunions and clues to where your
ancestors came from in the old country
- Do screenshots and save images of what you find so you will
have the references and stories; can enter these into your home
database and into FS FT
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