Useful Websites - Emigration
Useful Websites - Emigration
Click on the links below for information about people who emigrated from Scotland:
- Scottish emigration database - passengers who embarked at Scottish ports, 1890-1960
- Hebridespeople.com - emigrants database
- Merseyside Maritime Museum information sheets: emigration
- Travel and migration (find my past)
- TheShipsList - passenger lists of emigrants to Australia, Canada, United States of America and South Africa
Australia
- Highland and Island Emigration Society records (ScotlandsPeople)
- Convict Transportation Registers Database, 1787-1867 (State Library of Queensland, Australia)
- Female Convicts Research Centre - transportees to Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land)
- Inveraray Jail: prisoner records - link at end of page (includes some transported to Australia)
North America
- Castle Garden: America's First Immigration Center, 1820-1892
- The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island - USA's immigration centre database of 51 million plus passengers and crew, 1892-1924
- Emigrants from England and Scotland to North Carolina, 1774-1775 (Genealogy trails)
- Immigration (Library and Archives Canada)
- Hudson's Bay Company Archives: biographical sheets
- Mormon migration