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Where do you come from?

UK Emigration

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CENSUSES

CIVIL BMDRECORDS

About 1840

PARISHRECORDS

GENES REUNITED

GENUKI , FHS, GOONS, ETC

GOOGLE, ROOTSWEB and OTHER LISTS

Ancestry.co.ukLDS 1881

Findmypast.com

FreeBMDAncestry

Findmypast.comLocal BMD

sites

LDS Microfiche

LDS IGI / BVRI

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Emigration from UK

• http://www.theshipslist.com/• TheShipsList website, online since August 1999, will

help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists. Also immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more;

• As well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.

• Over 3,500 totally free access web-pages with new databases added regularly

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Emigration from UK

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USA immigration• Roanoke 1585-8• Jamestown 1607• Pilgrim Fathers 1620• Colonial immigration• Castle Gardens 1855, immigration mostly

from northern Europe• Ellis Island 1892, immigration mostly from

southern, eastern Europe

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http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/

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Immigrant ShipsTranscribers Guild

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Ellis Island

• USA port of immigration• Replaced Castle Garden• 1892 until 1954• 12 million people• 1897 there were 1.25m immigrants • 2% of arrivals were returned

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Ellis Island Immigration

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American Immigrant Wall of Honor

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http://www.stevemorse.org/

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Canada

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Australia

• No convicts from Britain to ex-American colonies after independence

• For a while, prisoners held in hulk ships• First penal colonies in Australia

established 1787, then more in 1790/91• 160,000 people transported until 1868

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Australia

• 1836 to 1886 .. Free / assisted passage, various advertising and other schemes offered by the government according to the labour requirements of the colony.

• 1842 .. Onwards Unassisted passage, with e.g. Gold Rush 1851-71

• Records were State-based until 1924, then national

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Australia

• http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html• http://www.searchwhateveraustralia.com.a

u/index.html• http://www.coraweb.com.au/• http://www.cohsoft.com.au/afhc/• http://www.genealogylinks.net/australia/• http://

www.genealogysearchaustralia.com.au/

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New Zealand

• Not used as a penal colony• First European settlers around 1820• By 1911 settlers, principally European

reached over 1m• http://www.genealogylinks.net/newzealand/

• http://www.archives.govt.nz• http://

freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/

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India

Many British people have ancestors who served and lived in India

Up to 1858 The East India Company

1858 to 1947 The Raj

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Want to track down your ancestors in India?

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Other parts of the World

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Other parts of the World

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