Immigration

Kalyn Loewer, Manager of Digital Collections, walks participants through two of the NYG&B’s online collections: Colonial Immigration Records and Shipwrecked Passengers Bound...

This lecture provides a case study in how to use DNA analysis, coupled with traditional genealogical research, to find the ancestral village of Daniel McCormick. Daniel was an...

The Great Arrival From the 1880s to 1920s, the United States experienced a period of mass immigration with nearly 15 million immigrants arriving in only the first decade of the...

The experience of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants is a part of American history. This case study examines the abundance of both conventional and ethnic-...

Earlier this summer, we hosted our second YouTube Live Q&A, in which our New York State research experts - D. Joshua Taylor and Susan R. Miller - answered questions submitted...

Earlier this year, we had our first ever live chat session with the President of the NYG&B, Joshua Taylor, and our Director of Education and Programming, Susan R. Miller. We'...

The purpose of this article is to explore the plethora of information that may be just a letter away at the Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), if...

"Hints To An Emigrant" is a captivating manuscript, written in 1823, in booklet form, by a 22-year-old seafaring Englishman named George Grimston Cookman. Throughout the neatly...

Immigration General Anuta, Michael J. Ships of Our Ancestors [VM 381 A58] Barkai, Avraham Branching out: German-Jewish immigration to the United States, 1820-1914 [E 184 J5 B34]...

Last week we added a useful and fascinating resource to our eLibrary - a compilation of 19th-century shipwrecks and their passengers by Frank A. Biebel. Shipwrecked passenger...