| Theme: Emigration | Sources .1. General |
| This page
lists sources for finding records of emigrated persons. It
is organized by destination. There are separate pages for Guides and for travel data. Links below under "SECTIONS" For sources from a specific province only: please check the province pages |
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| SECTIONS: | General | to Nordic Countries | to Central Europe | to / through UK |
| <--Guide . Travel--> | to USA | to Canada | to Australia | to New Zealand |
| Author / Editor | Title | Publication data / Comments | L | M | |
| General | |||||
| Focused on Origin | |||||
| Mats Ekedahl | Specialist at Landsarkivet, Visby. Gotland emigration only | Query by mail to Expert panel | B | ||
| Nordic Countries | |||||
| Digitalarkivet The Digital Archive |
Norwegian National censuses of 1801, 1865, 1900 and other sources (tax, church, emigrants, probate registers and more) | Eng . Constantly developing. Very rich site, lots of free on-line data. RECOMMENDED | B | I | |
| Slektsbiblioteket | Rich Norwegian genealogy source. Query board,
gen. forum, searchable databases of web-sites, look-up
volunteers and more. RECOMMENDED At present off line but promised to come back |
N | I | ||
| University of Tromsö | Lots of Norwegian sources | On-line, searchable | B | I | |
| Norway mailing lists | RootsWeb Norway mailing lists | B | I | ||
| Central Europe | |||||
| to / through UK | |||||
| through Denmark / Germany | |||||
| Quite a few of Swedish emigrants, mainly from southern Sweden, took the Hamburg/Bremen -> Köpenhamn ->USA route, some embarking in Hamburg, some in Köpenhamn. | See Guides section | ||||
| USA | |||||
| CD "Emigranten" | Searchable records of emigrants at port of exit. | CD . Buy . Info . Star Guide (Eng) | S | C | |
| Swedes emigrating through Denmark to Iowa, USA | Searchable lists, extracts from Danish emigration database | B | I | ||
| Lindwall B (Ed) | 24 famous Swedish Americans and their ancestors : a collection of ancestor tables | Stockholm, 1996, 284 p. ill. | E | B | |
| Örebro Stadsarkiv | Emigrant Index from Örebro län 1840-1930, >48000 indiv, Karlskoga (Värmland) included. Also 9 500 immigrants. Downloadable ! Recommended | Svenska . English | I | ||
| Social Security Death Index | Pensionärer avlidna i USA > 1937 | >Go> | E | I | |
| New York immigrants | Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-74 | John O Evjen | E | I | |
| Telephone and Zip | USA Telephone and Zip code directories | Telephone . Zip codes | E | I | |
| New England | Books and maps on line. Savage: 4 vols 2 500 p | >Go> . | E | I | |
| Canada | |||||
| Child emigration movement | Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain | Searchable database | E | I | |
| National Archives | National Archives of Canada Immigrations records 1865-1935, 1925-35 on line |
>Go> | E | I | |
| Australia | |||||
| National Archives | National Archives of Australia. Searchable database of several kinds of records. Digitizes "on demand" | >Go> | E | I | |
| National Library | National Library of Australia - "Picture Australia" - Searchable image database. | >Go> | E | I | |
| New Zealand | |||||
| NZ Geneal Search Engine | Search all geneal on-line sources for NZ | >Go> . Great (sometimes tech problems) | E | I | |
| Aminoff, Sten | Svenskarna i Nya Zeeland : den svenska utvandringen till Nya Zeeland fram till 1940 = The Swedes in New Zealand: the Swedish emigration to New Zealand until 1940 | Växjö, 1988, 464 p. ill. (Emigrantinstitutets vänners skriftserie 2) . Info | S | B | |
| Bob Hansen | Norwegian settlement Norsewood history | >Go> . Incl list of settlers | E | I | |
| Norsewood | Settlement founded by Norwegian (and Swedish) emigrants to NZ. | Bob
Hansen article Cemeteries. Fredrikson family |
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