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In March, during Irish American Heritage Month, the National Archives celebrates the contributions of Irish Americans in our nation’s history. Enlarge President Kennedy visits the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown, Ireland, June 27, 1963. (Photo by Cecil Stoughton, Kennedy Library) Arguably, the most famous Irish American in our holdings is President John F. Kennedy. Learn more about ...
Army Chaplains in the Civil War Spring 2016, Vol. 48, No. 1 | Genealogy Notes By John P. Deeben Enlarge Men of the Irish Brigade pose in a photograph taken in 1862 at Harrison's Landing, Virginia. Back row: Patrick Dillon, unidentified; front row: unidentified, James Dillon, and William Corby. The identified men are priests of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.
The online database shows 8,075 births at sea among more than 410,000 Irish passengers to arrive in New York from January 1846 through December 1851, the teeth of the Famine years. Of these newborns, 452 died, among 2,883 total reported fatalities. That’s a nearly three-to-one ratio of births-to-deaths, and an extra 7,623 passengers who did ...
A selection of links to websites that are useful for ethnic genealogical research. See also: Genealogy State Archives Vital Records Contents African-American Asian Australia and New Zealand British Isles Eastern European and Russian French-Canadian Hispanic: Central and South America, Mexico, Caribbean, and the West Indies Jewish Native American Western European African-American African ...
Please note: Although some of these records have been digitized and made available online, there are many records that are only available in paper or microfilm format at NARA locations. Among the billions of historical records housed at the National Archives throughout the country, researchers can find information relating to immigrants from the late 1700s through the early 2000s. The National ...
The National Archives has immigration records for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and December 1982 (with gaps). The records are arranged by port or airport of arrival. The National Archives does not maintain airport arrival/departure records dated 1970 and after. Use Form NATF 81 or order online to ...
The National Archives has passenger arrival records, sometimes called "ship passenger lists," for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and December 1982 (with gaps). The records are arranged by port or airport of arrival. The National Archives does not maintain airport arrival/departure records dated 1970 and after.
View Transcript. Passed in preparation for an anticipated war with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government. In 1798, the United States stood on the brink of war with France. The Federalist Party, which advocated for a strong central government, believed ...
Irish emigrants to Canada and United States of America: list giving names, ages, religions, Irish places of residence and American ports of destination of emigrants from the parish of Bovevagh, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, in the years 1833 and 1834. Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1936. 3 leaves. CS 497 B68 N6 1936
David Donigan, an Irish American at 1623 New Jersey, and August Schultz, a German American at 1617, were listed as police officers. There were six carpenters, most of them native whites. At the northern end of the street lived six African American families residing at three addresses from 1641 to 1647 New Jersey Avenue.