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All of us have our own immigration stories.

Many of you are familiar with Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. The following link takes you to a website describing the path that many immigrants took in the early 1900s as immigrants to our country. Ellis Island Immigration Tour Another simulation to check out shows what life would be like for new immigrants arriving in the early 1900s in tenement housing. Tenement Museum

Check out the following websites for research on Immigration in the past. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society History of Immigration -- Library of Congress (Use the graphic organizer on the @Organizers and Logs page to explore the history of eleven different immigrant groups.)

Genealogy Resources -- Immigration Ship and Passenger Lists Ellis Island National Monument (Make special notice of the photos and multimedia section, which includes oral histories of people who remember their immigrant journeys.) Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880 (A fascinating map that allows you to see where and when different ethnic groups settled in the US) USA History: Immigration (A gateway site with links to other sites.) [|Facts about Ellis Island from History.com] [|Facts about Tenements from History.com]



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 * RESEARCH YOUR OWN STORIES:**

USA History: Immigration (A gateway site with links to other sites. You can look at specific time periods or at specific countries of origin.) Encyclopedia of Immigration -- Mennonite Immigration Chronology: The Germans in America Amish/Mennonite Immigration Swiss Mennonite immigration history Article about Mennonite Immigration (This is a pdf article written by a Messiah College student. Read pages 3-5 to see reasons for your Mennonite ancestors choosing to move to Pennsylvania) A Collection of 30,000 Names of German, Swiss, French, Dutch Pennsylvania Immigrants 1727-1776 (This is a primary document showing the names of some original immigrants to Pennsylvania. In the first section there is a description of some of the reasons they came and the ships they came on.) Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (Use the search feature in the upper right hand corner of the page to search for your family name or a specific name.) Ship Passenger Lists from Paletine to Philadelphia 1727-1808 (This site lists all the ships carrying immigrants from Paletine, the area where most Mennonites came from.) German Immigrants to PA: Survival of the Fittest (This research paper describes what the voyage was like for your German ancestors.) Philadelphia Port Passenger Lists Scots immigration to American Encyclopedia of Immigration -- Scottish Immigration Encyclopedia of Immigration - British Immigration
 * Some general information:**

Brubacher - HouseofNames.com Brubaker Families Website Brubaker - Ancestry.com BrubakerFamilies.org
 * Specific Information for Last Names... We'll add more as we research!**

Hurst/Horst - Ancestry.com Hurst/Horst - HouseofNames.com

Martin - HouseofNames.com Martin - Ancestry.com Martins of Lancaster County Genealogy Project

Zimmerman - HouseofNames.com Zimmerman - Ancestry.com