New World Immigrants 2 Volumes Haedcover Excellent Condition

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New World Immigrants
Michael Tepper
This is  for
Two  Volume
set of
1170
pages in excellent condition. Per the publisher;
Ship passenger lists are the delight of the genealogist for  they provide the first record of an ancestor on American soil. Numerous  passenger lists have appeared in articles in a wide variety of periodicals. This  work is a collection of ninety-seven articles from some fifty periodicals,  mostly totally unknown to the researcher. This collection gives access to  material previously difficult to locate for no library in the country can claim  to have every issue of every periodical in this compilation. Periodicals drawn  on range from the obscure
Pennsylvania Dutchman
to the scholarly
American Genealogist
, from bi-weeklies to annuals, and, within the general  time frame 1618-1878, the articles identify upwards of 27,500 emigrants, mainly  English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss, French, Dutch, Norwegian, and  Russian-German.
The articles are arranged in approximate chronological  order usually by earliest date of record, the bulk of the work taken up with  passenger lists of the pre-Revolutionary period. In fact, the entire first  volume is given over to the hundred-year period 1618 to 1718. While the  distribution between articles on passenger lists of the 17th and 18th centuries  is roughly even, the 19th century is represented by a mere 15 articles, the last  being the passenger list of 1878. Yet these articles are nearly unmatched in  scope, and even the relatively barren period before the advent of the official  U.S. Customs Passenger Lists in 1820 is generously represented.
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