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    • Scanning the big picture: overviews
    • Focusing in: topical guides
    • Documenting evidence
    • Organizing your materials
    • Passing it on
  • Orientation to research in Tazewell County 
    • Where's the beef? A prime consideration . . .
    • Arrangement of resources in the Library's Virginia Room
    • Primary resources for quick checks of Tazewell County genealogy
• Was Kilroy here?
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• Where did he come from?
  • Ethnic and international guides
    • African American
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    • European and international
  • Immigration
• How did he get here?
  • Roads and migration routes
  • Maps and gazetteers
• Where do I go from here?

 

Immigration

Bowman, William Dodgson. Bristol and America: A record of the first settlers in the colonies of North America, 1654-1685, including the names with places of origin of more than 10,000 servants of foreign plantations who sailed from the port of Bristol to Virginia, Maryland, and other parts of the Atlantic coast, and also to the West Indies from 1654 to 1685.

Brownstone, David M. and Irene M. Franck.  Facts about American immigration.

Coldham, Peter Wilson.  Bonded passengers to America.

Coldham, Peter Wilson.  The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660.

Coldham, Peter Wilson.  The complete book of emigrants in bondage, 1614-1775.

Dobson, David.  Directory of Scottish settlers in North America.

Filby, P. William. Passenger and immigration lists bibliography, 1538-1900.

Filby, P. William. Passenger and immigration lists index.

Giuseppi, M. S.  Naturalizations of foreign protestants in the American and West Indian colonies.
Valuable introduction to early naturalizations.

Hotten, John Camden.  Original lists of persons of quality

McCartney, Martha W.  Virginia immigrants and adventurers, 1607-1635: a biographical dictionary.

Neagles, James C. and Lila Lee Neagles.  Locating your immigrant ancestor: a guide to naturalization records.

Omitted chapters from Hotten’s original lists of persons of quality

Passengers to America: a consolidation of ship passenger lists from the New England historical and genealogical register.

Pennsylvania German immigrants, 1709-1786 : lists consolidated from yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society

Schaefer, Christina.  Guide to naturalization records of the U. S.

Sherwood, George F. Tudor. American colonists in English records: A guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in “Hotten,” &c., &c., &c.

Strassburger, Ralph Beaver.  Pennsylvania German pioneers: a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808.

Strassburger, Ralph Beaver.  Pennsylvania German pioneers: a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808.  Facsimile signatures volume, 1727 to 1775.

Tepper, Michael.  American passenger arrival records.

Tepper, Michael.  New world immigrants.

National Archives and Records Administration.  Immigration Records

Cyndislist.  Immigration and Naturalization