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From: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Subject: [NCMECKLE] Immigrant Ancestors and Census Data
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:08:54 +0000


I pasted the below from the RootsWeb Review. They remind us that
www.ancestry.com is offering their databases free until Dec. 21st.
Betty Pace

>From Rootsweb Review

Another virtual treasure trove about your ancestors might be
awaiting you under IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION. Two of the
major databases there are the WUERTTEMBERG (Germany) EMIGRATION
INDEX and the GREAT MIGRATION (New England) INDEX. However,
there is much more to be found here. Example of a recent search:

Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the
American Colonies: Volume I ZURICH TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA,
1734-1744 LIST OF EMIGRANTS TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA, 1734-
1744

Sergeant Heinrich Hitz, from the Bauder-Albis, born July 11,
1697, with his wife, Elsbetha Frick, of Knonau, born April 18,
1711, and four children: Verena, born March 16, 1727, Adelheid,
born February 10, 1732, Heinrich, born September 13, 1733, and
Anna, born May 11, 1738; to Pennsylvania.


IMMIGRANTS INTO PENNSYLVANIA: Volume 1
Name: Joh. Conrad Fromm.
Ship: SHIP LYDIA.
Captain: JAMES ALLEN.
LIST OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED IN THE SHIP LYDIA.
Place: LONDON
Date: DEC. 11, 1739 [The original list is herewith given.]
Men's names and ages.

Hans Jacob Houser, 23, Rodick Frick, 30, Johannes Frick, 19,
Andreas Crook, 45, Hans Jacob Frie, 30, Ulrick Spinder, 23,
Hendrick Seeds, 28, Hendrick Seeds, junr., 28,
Hans Jacob Croop, 30, Johannes Laypert, 21.


Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the
American Colonies: Volume 2 ZURICH TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA,
1734-1744 LISTS OF EMIGRANTS FROM VARIOUS DISTRICTS FAMILY
NAMES, BERN

[p.59] Pfister, a master butcher in the city of Reading, she
wishes to take her inheritance in this country over to America.
Anna Barbara is a daughter of Conrad Kunzli, who died in America
in 1769, by his first wife who bore him 2 children. He had three
children by a second wife who died in 1750 on the way to
Pennsylvania. In 1753 Kunzli came back home for a short time and
told about his circumstances. Since it is not known where the
other children are, or whether they are still living, the
government only allows one-fifth of the property of 937 gulden
to be withdrawn. The emigration tax of 10 percent is deducted.
Among the documents there is a statement made out by Pastor A.
Helffenstein on December 10, 1773, in Germantown, saying that
the Schmidt-Kunzli couple are members of the Reformed Church;
there is also the original of the warrant of authority of
Dec. 9, 1773, for Joh. Jak. Pfister. A form printed in the
German language was used for this warrant. Peter Miller,
Esquire, royal judge of the city and county of Philadelphia,
acted as notary, and Benjamin Miller and Abraham Schoemaker as
witnesses.


IMMIGRANTS INTO PENNSYLVANIA: Volume 1
Name: Michael Frick, sick.
Ship: DUKE OF WIRTENBERG
Captain: DANIEL MONTPELIER
Place: ROTTERDAM
Date: OCT. 20, 1752

Name: Henry Gimper,
Ship: EDINBURG
Place: ROTTERDAM
Date: OCT. 2, 1753


RootsWeb Guides, TRACING IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson15.htm
and NATURALIZATION RECORDS
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson16.htm
can help you learn more about available records and find links
to more sources.

This would be a good time to do a search in the AIS CENSUS
INDEXES. This collection of some 35 million people contains
federal and state census indexes, indexes to various U.S.
non-population schedules (Mortality Schedules for 1850, 1860,
1870 and 1880), Veterans Schedules, and Slave Schedules) and
information from various tax lists. This is a great database to
help find where your ancestors resided in the United States at
particular times.

Remember to try all the variant spellings of your surnames --
the census enumerator or the tax man might have spelled the name
differently than you do. Need some ideas for overcoming name
spelling problems? See WHY YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR ANCESTORS at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson8.htm

For questions about census records and links to more
information, see CENSUS RECORDS: SOUNDEXES, INDEXES AND
FINDING AIDS at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson9.htm

Also see RootsWeb Guide, TAXING TALES at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson11.htm

If you explore the buried treasures under BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY at
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/biohist/main.htm
you might be fortunate enough to turn up some golden nuggets of
family data under BIOGRAPHY & GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX or the
SLAVE NARRATIVES.

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