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Offices to Contact
''This heading will contain any relevant offices/entities that may hold relevant records, if the records aren't available online. If there are no offices that fit this description, this subheading can be excluded.''

Finding Town of Origin
The only content under this heading will be a link off to a specific Research Strategy article covering this topic. (this is to prevent this section from becoming too overwhelming and taking over the page.) - HOLD until we have a landing page for all of the Finding Town of Origin pages :)

Background
''This heading will include information and subheadings (as needed) detailing the history, trends, peoples, or other relevant information about the nature of immigration in this country. Subheadings may be included as necessary for specific cultural groups or immigration/emigration patterns. ''

Immigration Records
Immigration refers to people coming into a country. Emigration refers to people leaving a country to go to another. The records usually take the form of ship's passenger lists collected at the port of entry.

What can I find in them?

 * Passenger lists before 1820 included name, departure information and arrival details. The names of wives and children were often not included.


 * Customs Passenger Lists between 1820 and 1891 asked for each immigrant’s name, their age, their sex, their occupation, and their country of origin, but not the city or town of origin.


 * Information given on passenger lists from 1891 to 1954 included:
 * name, age, sex,
 * nationality, occupation, marital status,
 * last residence, final destination in the U.S.,
 * whether they had been to the U.S. before (and if so, when, where and how long),
 * if joining a relative, who this person was, where they lived, and their relationship,
 * whether able to read and write,
 * whether in possession of a train ticket to their final destination, who paid for the passage,
 * amount of money the immigrant had in their possession,
 * whether the passenger had ever been in prison, a poorhouse, or in an institution for the insane,
 * whether the passenger was a polygamist,
 * and immigrant's state of health.


 * In 1906, the physical description and place of birth were included, and a year later, the name and address of the passenger’s closest living relative in the country of origin was included.

Emigration Records
''This heading does not need to contain repeat listings of collections above... this heading will largely include information about any records specific to emigration (as opposed to immigration), including what information can typically be found in the different records. Subheadings may be created for specific record types as needed.''

In-country Migration
This section will detail any relevant migration patterns or influences that pertained to this location, such as common migration routes in the location, or groups of people from one location who congregated in another location, etc. (for state pages of the United States, this section will only include migration patterns that were relevant to that particular state)

For Further Reading
This heading will contain any other publications/websites, etc. that may be relevant to researching/understanding immigration and emigration for this country.