The Open Collections Program from Harvard features “Immigration to the United States”, a web-based collection of selected historical information and resources on immigration to the US from 1789-1930.
The collection includes information on immigration records from Harvard’s’ libraries, archives, and museums. According to the website, the historical records include “approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections.”
There are diaries, biographies in addition to technical and statistic information which may help tell the stories of the European and Scandinavian immigration to the “New World” and the lives which took these people from their familiar world to this strange new land.
Article Information
Harvard Open Collection Online: History of Immigration to the United States is Issue Number 282 published January 9, 2007, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy Resources categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 236 articles for our our family history blog.
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January 18th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
looking for immigration graphs for croatia for daughters report for school
April 27th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
looking for ancestors of Elias Stucke of Sewickley, PA
July 11th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Doing my mother family Rively I sure would love to know what country they came from . thank you m fox 83 years young