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From: "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] Port of Arrival Philadelphia, PA 1864-1865
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:21:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: <006201c4f38f$d5455460$6b8fe904@ELLEN>


On 5 Jan 2005 at 20:34, Ellen Gray wrote:

> I am desperately searching for information on the
> immigration of my great grandfather, James Green, who at the
> age of 15, left county Cavan, Ireland for America. He
> eventually settled in Kansas City, MO in the year of 1865.
> I have reason to believe that he entered through the port of
> Philadelphia, PA sometime between the years of 1864-1865.


PA ships lists have been kept, and are on microfilm, as far back as
1800 (it was not a requirement that they be kept until 1820)

There are indexes you can use to search for the surname
you want.

For a complete list of film numbers for ships going to PA
after 1820, see

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/filmnos_pa.shtml

Find the film you need and write down the
NARA or Family History Centre film number you need.

Then you can order the film in to your nearest FHC or have
NARA do the lookup for you.

The staff of the National Archives will undertake a search
of the original records for a fee

To find your nearest FHC you can go to
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

If you want to try your luck ONline, there is a custom
search engine that will search most Internet sites
with ships going to PA.

See
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/
and choose PENNSYLVANIA from the state choices.

Scroll down to the yellow search engine.

Since he was Irish, you could also check Irish to USA at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/irishtousa.shtml

Good luck, and one other tip -- try to find him in 1870 census
records, for that will show if he was naturalized or not.
Then you can search for his naturalization records too.

You can read more about the value of census records in
your search for an immigrant ancestor at
http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/census.shtml

Lorine


http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_pa.shtml
Passenger Lists to PA
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/searchpaships.shtml
Custom Search Engines Internet-wide for Ships to PA

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/filmnos_pa.shtml
NARA & FHC film nos. from 1820 for immigration




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