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.
| 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: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Home Children |
| Link: | https://www.britishhomechildren.com/ |
| Description: | British Home Children - Information and Database |
| Extra Info: | Canada's leading organization for the British Home Children. |
| Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | British Home Children Registry |
| Link: | http://britishhomechildrenregistry.com/ |
| Description: | British Home Children Advocacy and Researcg Assocication |
| 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: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) |
| Link: | http://www.castlegarden.org/ |
| Description: | Castle Garden Immigration Centre (USA) - (1820-1892) |
| Extra Info: | Immigration centre prior to Ellis Island. Search by name of the individual fro the 11 million immigrants, or by ship. |
| Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Tithe Records, Valuation Books, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | DALTON Data Bank and One Name Study |
| Link: | http://www.daltondatabank.org/ |
| Description: | DALTON Data Bank and One Name Study |
| 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: | 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: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | Genes Reunited : Search Passport Applications |
| Link: | Genes Reunited : Search passport applications |
| Description: | Search UK Passport Applications 1851 to 1903 |
| 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, 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: | School / Educational Records / Alumni, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | PINCKNEY - The site for all UK PINCKNEYs |
| Link: | http://www.john-pinckney.co.uk/family/index.htm |
| Description: | PINCKNEY - The site for all UK PINCKNEYs and Variants |
| Extra Info: | Includes PINCKNEYs at Oxford and Cambridge and those who emigrated abroad. |
| Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
| Title: | SANDCASTER Family Database |
| Link: | https://members.tripod.com/doug_edw/ |
| Description: | SANDCASTER Family Database |
| 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: | Scottish Emigration Database |
| Link: | https://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/ |
| Description: | Scottish Emigration Database |
| Extra Info: | Can search by name, by ship, occupation and more. |
| 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: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
| Title: | GENUKI County Page for Perthshire |
| Link: | https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/PER/ |
| Description: | General Information for Perthshire |
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