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This CD contains the images of each page from five Genealogical
Publishing Company books: New World Immigrants I, New
World Immigrants II, Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819,
Immigrants to the Middle Colonies, and Passengers to
America.
The books themselves are a collection of articles from a variety of
genealogical publications such as The New England Historical and
Genealogical Register (NEHGR), The New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record, The American Genealogist, The National
Genealogical Society Quarterly, The Pennsylvania Genealogical
Magazine, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
and many others.
Genealogists who search through passenger lists will be interested
in this CD — the introduction mentions that "almost all articles
identified by Harold Lancour in his celebrated Bibliography
of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825 can be found [here]."
There are over 58,000 individuals mentioned on the CD: people
who arrived in the New England and Mid-Atlantic area from 1572
to 1878. Information contained about each individual varies; when
searching for my ancestors I found information on occupation,
place of origin, naturalization information, ship's information
(name of captain, ship, dates), and the names and ages of spouses
and children.
Included in each book are a comprehensive list of sources, index
of names, and all but one book has an index of ship's names as
well — of course, you can also search all of the books at
once using the Search Expert or the comprehensive (all volumes)
name index.
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