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Popular databases are Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1915, Massachusetts Vital Records 1911-1915, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The American Genealogist, Social Security Death Index, Cemetery Transcriptions, Great Migration Begins: 1620-1633, and Abstracts of Wills in New York State ...
Directed by Robert Charles Anderson, the project is conducted in collaboration with the New England Historic Genealogical Society and has been underway since 1988. Publications of the Great Migration Study Project include: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633 [first series], 3 volumes (NEHGS, 1995). The first phase ...
Some historians differentiate between a first Great Migration (1910–40), which saw about 1.6 million people move from mostly rural areas in the South to northern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (1940–70), which began after the Great Depression and brought at least five million people—including many townspeople with urban ...
In the 20th century, two major events changed the lives of Black Southerners: the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement. The first Great Migration began during World War I and continued until 1940, with the second wave hitting its high point during World War II and the post-World War II economic boom, which lasted until 1970.
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 vols. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis, 2008, Eighth edition. Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley genealology; Rev. Peter Bulkeley. New Haven: Tuttle ...
Their emigration initiated an event known as the Puritan Great Migration when as many as 21,000 people emigrated to New England between 1630 and 1640. [ 16 ] According to Deputy Governor Thomas Dudley, “Mr. Vassal , one of the Assistants, and his Family” returned with the Lyon when it was sent back to England for provisions in July, a month ...
The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) [5] [6] resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings ...
Great Migration of Puritans from England to New England (1620–1643) Great Migrations of the Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737) Great Migration of Canada, increased migration to Canada (approximately 1815–1850) Great Migration, resulting from the 1947 Partition of British India; African American "Great ...