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Some sites are listed under several topics due to the
vast amount of information contained within the sites.

IMMIGRATION
PASSENGER LISTS
SHIPS
ETHNIC
COUNTRIES (in alphabetical order)
BOOK STORES - NEW & USED

IMMIGRATION

  History of Immigration In The United States

  Library of Congress:
Local History and Genealogy Reading Room Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published Sources

  Immigration Book Titles
Here is a list of books and articles on emigration from Europe (France, Holland, Germany).

  Immigration/Passenger Bibliography

  How to Trace Your Ancestors to Europe
Hugh T. Law, Cottonwood Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1987.

  Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Roger Daniels, New York, Harper Collins, 1990.

  Bonded Passengers to America
(Nine Volumes in Three) Peter Wilson Coldham, The Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore Maryland, 1983

  They Became Americans :
Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins, Szucs, Loretto Dennis, and Szucs, Dennis L.

  They Came in Ships:
A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Ship, John Philip Colletta

PASSENGER LISTS

  Passengers and Immigrants to America - The Clayton Library

  Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
Peter William Filby & Mary K Meyer
A guide to Published Arrival Records of about 3,050,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries.
They estimate that there have been over 35,000,000 immigrants who came to the New World.

  Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819 :
A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Michael Tepper, 1978

  The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1988

  Bonded Passengers to America
(Nine Volumes in Three) Peter Wilson Coldham, The Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore Maryland, 1983

SHIPS

  Lloyd's "Captains Registers"

  Shipping Lines, Liners, Shipbuilding & Ships

  The Famine Ships:
The Irish Exodus to America, Edward Laxton, 1997

  American Sailing Ships:
Their Plans and History, Charles G. Davis,1984

  The Atlas of Shipwrecks & Treasure:
The History, Location, and Treasures of Ships Lost at Sea, Nigel Pickford, Published 1994.

ETHNIC

  Avotaynu, Inc.
Avotaynu, Inc. is the leading publisher of information and products of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy and Jewish family history. This includes the journal, Avotaynu, books and microfiche, books, maps and video tapes published by other companies.

  Ethnic Genealogy: A Research Guide
Jessie Carney Smith, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1983. BR>

COUNTRIES (in alphabetical order)

  German and American Sources for German Emigration to America, Michael P. Palmer
This list represents only the most significant and easily accessible works on the subject of emigration.

  The Palatine Immigrant - Volumes I - XXIV
A quarterly journal published by Palatines to America based on researching German speaking ancestors.

  German Immigration to America in the Nineteenth Century:
A Genealogist's Guide, Maralyn Ann Wellauer, Roots International, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1985.

  The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. 5 vols.,
Trudy Schenk & Ruth Froelke, Ancestry, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1986.

  Germans to America:
Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1850 -, Scholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington, 1988-96

  Irish Emigration Publications

  The Search for Missing Friends:
Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot 1831- 1850. Ruth Ann M. Harris, & Donald M. Jacobs; Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1989.

  Italians to America:
Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880 -1899: Passengers Arriving at New York January 1880 - December 1884 Vol 1, Ira A. Glazier & P. William Filby, 1992

BOOK STORES - NEW & USED

  Appleton's
Offers fine used books of all subjects, as well as an extensive collection of new genealogy products for people interested in family history.

  ALIBRIS
Rare books, signed books, first editions, and more. Alibris is able to offer new copies of out-of-print or otherwise unavailable books, printed on demand.

  Barbara Green's: Used Genealogy Books

  Broad View Books
Used Genealogy Books and Reprints, Local History of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and New England

  Essex Books
Focus is New England. Some publications are facsimile reprints of rare, old publications.

  GenealogyBookShop.com
Formerly the Genealogical Publishing Company - a comprehensive collection.

  Higginson Book Company
The most comprehensive list of North American genealogy reprints available.

  Heritage Books, Inc.
Publisher of books on paper, CD-ROM, and the World Wide Web.

  Heritage Quest
Includes how-to, reference, military records, immigration, genealogy resource information and much more.

  Jeannette Austin's GENEALOGY BOOKS
Includes immigration/passenger lists, probate records, county records (wills, deeds, marriages), obituaries, census, bibles, civil/revolutionary war, county histories, genealogies, family histories and many other genealogy books.

  Maiden Voyage Booksellers
Maiden Voyage Booksellers specializes in used, rare, and out-of-print books on ocean liners, merchant ships and the TITANIC. We also carry a wide selection of collectibles, ephemera and postcards on these subjects.

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