Swipe card: USA

Swarms of locusts the size of France, taking 5 days to pass your farm. Does that sound like fantasy? In the 1870s, this was the reality...

Are you one of the many people who have a relative who emigrated to the United States and then disappeared from the family history as a...

When we think of the early European immigrants who laid the foundations of America, the image of the first English colonists in Jamestown often comes to mind....

The Chronicling America website has recently received an extensive upgrade. This is the service of the Library of Congress that provides access to millions of digitized historical...

With the large waves of emigration Norway experienced throughout much of the 1800s and early 1900s, the vast majority of families have a relative who...

If you have ancestors who emigrated to the United States before 1890, their first encounter with the new country may have been Castle Garden. The...

Most people probably have one or more relatives who emigrated to the USA. The fate of many of these emigrants has subsequently remained unknown to the...

Neither the United States nor Canada kept passenger lists for outgoing ships, as incoming ships' passenger lists were considered more important. However, there are some places...