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Bringing History Home 

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Selected Web Sites

Links to Selected Websites
Second Grade: Immigration History
- Topic: Timelines
  Click on The Peopling of America box for timeline:
http://www.ellisisland.org/immexp/wseix_4_3.asp
  Landmarks in Immigration History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm
- Topic: Maps
 

World Migrations
http://www.ancestrybydna.com/welcome/whatisancestrybydna/migrationmap

- Topic: Background Resources
 

Ship Manifests – Q & A user’s guide http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/imnat/guides/cimorelli.html

 

Ship’s Manifests on the Web – Over 5,000 passenger lists are available on this amazing site.
http://www.immigrantships.net/index2.html

  Indexed Links to Immigration Sites
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#immigration
  Immigrant Photo Album
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/photo_album/photo_album.html
  Immigrant country of origin data – Immigration waves http://www.fairus.org/Research/Research.cfm?ID=1820&c=2&insearch=1821%20and%20-1995
 

Ellis Island
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/ellisisle/
www.ellisisland.org

An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
Students take a virtual tour of Ellis Island.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

  Chinese immigration http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/chinese/index.html
  Northern Plains Immigrants http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ngp/history.html
(Scroll down for immigration.)
  World migrations
http://smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/tiers/people/peoples.html
 

Other Resources
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/immigration/
http://www.ihrc.umn.edu
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/ports/index.htm

  Olive Tree Genealogy – Ship’s Passenger Lists
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/