ETHNIC INTERESTS

1885 WAY of LIFE
1885 The Real Condition of Blyn's Streets & Houses An Excellant inside view of what life was like. Broken down into neighborhoods.

BRITISH
THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS (First published by Macmillan, 1903)
The 1900 House..Go Back in Time Four-part documentary that "transports" an actual modern family from 1999 back to life in 1900. Public television viewers will have the chance to vicariously experience a time-travel journey back to everyday, middle-class life in Victorian London.

Surname Origin List
British trade directories

CHINESE
Chinese Immigration Prior to 1900
Chinese Immigration Presidental Papers 1789-1897
The History of New York's Chinatown

GERMAN
German Traces NYC.. German Traces NYC is mobile, augmented reality experience designed to let learners explore German cultural heritage in New York City. The application makes use of archival documents, photographs, and multimedia narratives to bring to life to this significant thread of New York City and United States history.
Links for German Genealogy on the Internet
German First & Last Names
How can I start researching my German or German-American family?
OLD GERMAN PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS and ILLNESSES
An informative article on German Church Records

HOLLANDERS
Hollanders..Intro
Prominent Hollanders Name Index..New York
Prominent Hollanders Bios..New York
New Netherlands New York Databases

HUNGARIAN
Hungarian.Intro

IRISH
Irish Passenger Lists
Ireland..causes of emigration
Irish Immigrant in New York
IRISH Interests in NYC
New York - Brooklyn IRISH History
Fenian Society
Irish Biographical Sketches (U.S. prior -1900)
Obituaries and Death Notices in several N.Y.C. newspapers which catered to the burgeoning community of Irish-Americans in this City and the Nation
An Index: Marriages in Walker's Hiberian Magazine 1771 - 1812

The National Archives of Ireland Transportation Records Database
"MISSING FRIENDS" From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a 'Missing Friends' column with advertisements from people looking for 'lost' friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States... More than 31,438 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot.
Irish in New York Website

ITALIAN
Italian Emigration in New York
Italian-American in New York
Brooklyn Memories..Little Italy of Brooklyn
Notable Italians in the U.S.A. Prior to 1900
Wartime Restrictions on Italians in the U.S.A.
Injustice to Italian Laborers in the U.S. (Presidental Papers)
Italy..A research Outline

JEWISH
JEWISH Interests in New York

NATIVE AMERICANS
Native American Database

NORWAY
Ancestors from Norway

SLOVAK
Early Slovak Emigration in New York

SWEDE
A Review of Swedish Emigration to America
Guideline for Swedish American Genealogical research
Federation of Swedish Genealogical..Find Your Swedish Roots
Your Main Gate to Genealogical Research in Sweden

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