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In the State Archives in Gdansk holdings the most important sources for genealogical research are
PUBLIC REGISTERS from 1874-1904 and
CATHOLIC , and
EVANGELIC church registers from 16th to 20th Century. For further research other records are very valuable, for example: other confession s records like Mennonites and Jews, citizen registers and card indexes from towns and villages, taxes records, ground property records from 18th to 20th Century and also immigrant lists from 1945-1948.
Access to Holdings...
A very useful for genealogical research are links to Internet Web sites with genealogical databases. One from them is Polish database PRADZIAD contain information about places of preserving church and public registers in Polish Archives.
A very helpful site and free to all visitors is US genealogical database FAMILYSEARCH provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). This site contains a large and freely searchable archive. Among the data are: the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), U.S. Federal Census for 1880 or the 1881 census for both the British Isles and Canada, a vital records index containing birth, marriage, and death records from around the World.
Also a very helpful site and free to all visitors is Web site of the American Family Immigration History Center (AFIHC) in the Ellis Island (NY).
The Center allows visitors to explore in the World Wide Web the extraordinary collection of immigrant arrival records stored in the Ellis Island Archives.
THE IMMIGRANT SHIPS TRANSCRIBERS GUILD
is a group of volunteers focused on transcribing passenger arrival records and publishing their work online so that immigrant arrivals to the New York City (1627-1893) can be more easily found online. Access to this Web site is free.
The Hamburg State Archive can now offer a database
LINK TO YOUR ROOTS with emigrants lists from Hamburg harbour. The database will continue to further grow, until the data of all emigrants are available, but now contain data from 1890 to 1914.
Also very helpful for research of emigrants from Southern Baltic Sea area is DEMOGRAPHICAL DATABASE OF SOUTHERN SWEDEN
provides by Landsarkivet Lund, Sweden.
Also a very helpful site and free to all visitors may be the Web site EMILE - Early Emigrant Letter Stories.
EMILE is a Culture 2000-project which focuses on emigrant letters, written to people left behind in the old countries.
The EMILE-project will shed light on the European immaterial heritage that can be found in letters, photos, songs and told memories.
It focuses on the period 1840 - 1920, when famine, poverty, overpopulation and religious persecution forced millions of people to
leave their homes and search for a new and better life somewhere else. The majority headed to the United States of America.
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