American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam

American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam
ISBN-10
0806313803
ISBN-13
9780806313801
Category
Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry
Pages
142
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Company
Author
Michael Tepper

Description

Lured by opportunity or driven by necessity, millions of people made their way to America in the most determined and sustained migration the world has ever known. Initially they left traces of their immigration in scattered records and documents; later, their arrival in this country was documented so minutely that the records resulting from this documentation are among the largest, the most continuous, and the most uniform in the nation's archives ...

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