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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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