Hi Joanne, Would be grateful if you could forward the document " Immigrant Arrivals" . Many of my ancestors immigrated to TN and Al, particularly the Scot Irish. Thanks for the effort you are expending to help the community. Jim Duncan in AZ JOPARMLEY@aol.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a reference document from the Library of Congress entitled, "Immigrant > Arrivals, guide to published sources" compiled by Virginia Steele Wood. This > guide ONLY pertains to people who immigrated TO the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. > > SOME of the topics included in this relatively long reference are: > > Discusses ship passenger lists, dates of laws passed in regard to this and > their purpose; > > Discusses the National Archives and it's holdings; > > Indentured Servitude and how it related to US immigration; > > A listing of MANY, MANY reference books with summaries of their contents. > > Discusses the role Canada played in US immigration. > > And others..... > > This document is an EXCELLENT resource guide for genealogy! The information > applies to/ and the book listings cover a wide range of nationalities > (German, Irish, Czeh, English, etc...) > > I offered to forward this reference guide to anyone interested on a couple of > the other email lists I am subscribed to. Because of the AVALANCHE of > requests I received it led me to think that I should extend the invitation to > all of you as well. Between yesterday and today I handled over 200 requests > for this guide. I just feel it is great information and want to make it > available to everyone. I, of course, am willing to do the work of forwarding > it at no cost to any of you, (except the time it will take you to read it > :-). > > If any of you would like me to forward this document, please email me OFF > LIST. Your comments are welcome, but I regret that due to the volume of this > task, I won't be able to reply to any of your questions about it. You will > simply have to read it for yourself. > > For some people I have already forwarded it to, it showed up in the body of > the email. For others an attachment was involved. In regard to the > attachment, you need not be concerned about any virus spread as I have > scanned this document using the latest DAT files. This document is CLEAN. > Feel free to pass this guide on to anyone you think might be interested in it > without worry. > > Depending on how many requests I receive it may take me a day or two to > fulfill. Please be patient. > > I think that about covers everything. Happy reading, and let the requests > begin! :-) > > Joanne > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/