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Goal 7: Explore emigration and immigration in England.
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ALearn about emigration and immigration resources.
- Basics: Learn about emigration and immigration in these articles.
BYU—English Ancestors, External Migration
FS—England Emigration and Immigration
- Here's an overview of England emigration history and records. See more information in the links on the right side of the linked page.
European Emigration: England - National Archives: Learn about emigration records at the National Archives.
Emigration Records: An Introduction—32:00 - 2017
- Learn about immigration to England.
National Archives: Immigration - Naturalization: Learn about naturalization and British citizenship.
National Archives: Naturalisation and British Citizenship - Passenger Lists: Learn about English passenger lists.
National Archives: Passengers
Locations
- Learn about English emigration to a variety of countries.
National Archives: Emigration - Learn about early emigration to the American Colonies and West Indies.
National Archives: American and West Indian Colonies
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for immigration records. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
BExplore other emigration resources on websites.
- Explore the
EllisIsland.org site. - Explore the CastleGarden.org site (Castle Garden was the forerunner to Ellis Island).
- Explore the Immigrants.byu.edu site.
- Exlore English emigration to America in the Olive Tree Genealogy site.
- Explore the Immigrant Ships site. Select a Volume, then choose England as the departure or arrival location.
Passenger List Practice |
Jabez S. Adams left England from Newcastle on the S S Roxburgh Castle ship in the year 1906. Locate his passenger record using the Immigrants.byu.edu site and then answer these questions:
- Why was Jabez leaving England?
- Where was he headed?
- What type of passenger was he?
- In the Immigrants.byu.edu site, enter Jabez's full name in the Name field and click Search. Select the only record to appear, and read the information to answer the questions.
- It is likely that Jabez was leaving England because he had finished his missioanry efforts.
- Jabez was going to Layton (Utah).
- Next to "Passanger Type," Jabez was listed as "Missionaries."
(Contributed by Kaylee Lynn)
Exercises
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for immigration resources. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
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