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Scotland, Scotland : Classification : Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records


Emmigration and immigration records provide useful information about our ancestors' movement around the world. For every emmigration record there is often a matching immigration record. Often the details differ, so it worth looking for both.

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Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures
Title:1820 British Settlers to South Africa
Link:https://www.1820settlers.com/
Description:1820 British Settlers to South Africa
Extra Info:Information about the 1820 British settlers to South Africa, including transcribed letters, photographs and pictures of some of the settlers and a forum.
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:1820 Settler Correspondence - Cape of Good Hope
Link:https://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/
Description:Letters from the Settlers of the Cape of Good Hope
Extra Info:This correspondence concerns the immigration scheme for the Cape of Good Hope following the Napoleonic Wars.
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
Link:https://www.bifhsgo.ca/
Description:British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
Extra Info:Click on projects. Includes lists of the 'home children' the children who travelled to Canada between 1869-1932.
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records
Title:British Nationalisations 1844-1990
Link:Naturalisation certificate records for those who became naturalised British subjects, by Find My Past
Description:Naturalisation certificate records for those who became naturalised British subjects, by Find My Past
Classification:Newspapers, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Sports Clubs and Associations
Title:British Presence in South Patagonia
Link:https://patbrit.org/
Description:British Presence in South Patagonia
Extra Info:A wealth of information about those British who settled in here.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists
Link:http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/ImmNat/...
Description:Brooklyn Genealogy Information - Passenger Lists
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records
Title:Denise & Peter's Website Including Ships Passenger Lists
Link:http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/
Description:Denise & Peter's Website Including Ships Passenger Lists for Emigrants into New Zealand
Extra Info:Also includes details of areas settled by groups of people.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records
Title:Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations
Link:Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations
Description:Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775
Extra Info:Includes information on the ships they were sent on as well as the master of the ship.
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Directory of Scots in the Carolinas
Link:Directory of Scots in the Carolinas
Description:Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830
Extra Info:In some cases includes birthdate and place in Scotland as well as occupation.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825
Link:Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825
Description:Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825
Extra Info:This volume brings together a list of all Scots emigrants appearing in ships' passenger lists before 1825.
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Ellis Island - Deaths in Quarantine
Link:http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/genealog...
Description:Ellis Island - Deaths in Quarantine
Extra Info:List those who died in quarantine at Ellis Island.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Ellis Island Foundation
Link:https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/passenger
Description:Ellis Island - Port of New York Passenger Records 1892-1954
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Emigration Database
Link:https://www.dunbrody.com/
Description:Emigration Database from the Dunbrody Famine Ship Website
Extra Info:The Dunbrody famine ship carried many Irish passenger to America. Although this website includes a database of Irish emigration many of those on the list are English, Welsh and Scottish.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Link:https://www.immigrantships.net/
Description:Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Extra Info:Includes records by ship, by departure point, by arrival point and also name search. Over 9000 ships passenger lists online.
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Italian Genealogical Group - US Naturalisations
Link:https://www.italiangen.org/
Description:Italian Genealogical Group - US Naturalisations
Extra Info:Click on Databases Naturalizations, then scroll down the pages for the database search.
Classification:Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Medievalists.net
Link:https://www.medievalists.net/
Description:Where the Middle Ages begin.
Extra Info:Includes the largest-ever study of Viking genetics
Classification:Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries
Title:Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England
Link:http://web.archive.org/web/20140407043350/http://m...
Description:Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England
Extra Info:This is an archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information and photographs still seem to be available.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships
Link:http://www.norwayheritage.com/
Description:Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships
Extra Info:Includes some searchable passenger lists. also information about the ships and lists documenting their individual voyages, as well as pictures of the ships.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Passenger Lists to New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigration
Link:New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Description:New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Extra Info:Assisted immigrants had their passages subsidized or paid for by another person or agency. This collection is four different series of records. Information listed may include name, age, and native place.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Passengers in History
Link:https://passengers.history.sa.gov.au/
Description:Passengers in History - An initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum
Extra Info:The passengers data base was produced by staff and volunteers at the South Australian Maritime Museum over 20 years. It includes entries for 328,000 passengers and 20,000 voyages to South Australia between 1836 and 1961.
Classification:Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices
Title:Scotland Data from Ancestry
Link:Scotland Data from Ancestry
Description:Scotland Data Collection from Ancestry
Extra Info:Includes Emmigrants and Immigrants; Numerous Directories and Gazetteers and more.
Classification:Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Minute Books / Meeting Books, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records
Title:Scottish Archive Network
Link:https://www.scan.org.uk/
Description:Scottish Archive Network
Extra Info:Click on Digital Archive for online documents.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:South African Passenger Lists
Link:http://www.eggsa.org/arrivals/lists.html
Description:South African Passenger Lists
Extra Info:The eGSSA branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa has embarked on a project to transcribe all the passenger lists in the South African Archives.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:South African Passenger Lists and Settlers
Link:https://www.sa-passenger-list.za.net/
Description:South African Passenger Lists and Settlers
Extra Info:Includes passenger lists from London, Glasgow, Liverpool etc. to Natal (Durban) and Cape Town. Also includes details of Haidee settlers.
Classification:Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Journals / Diaries
Title:The National Archives Online Collections
Link:https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Description:The National Archives - Collection of Digitised Public Records
Classification:Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Other Records
Title:GENUKI Country Page for Scotland
Link:https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
Description:General Information for Scotland

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