Italians to America: Volume 25 October 1903 - March 1904: List of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports
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Italians to America: Volume 25 October 1903 - March 1904: List of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports By Ira A. Glazier * Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. * Number Of Pages: 586 * Publication Date: 2008-06-28 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0810861747 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780810861749 Introduction Italians to America provides both the genealogist and the historian with an extensive data base of Italian immigrants who came to the United States between 1880 and 1915. This data base derives from the original ship manifest schedules, currently housed at the Temple-Balch Institute's Center for Immigration Research in Philadelphia. These schedules were filed by all vessels entering U.S. ports in accordance with the act of Congress of 1819. Although this series of Italians to America includes only the years from 1880 to 1899, Scholarly Resources plans to publish additional volumes for the 1900-15 period. The passenger lists reproduced in these volumes are arranged in chronological order by date of arrival. Italian passengers on these lists who disembarked at New York are published in their entirety; the names of non-Italian passengers are deleted. According to the act of 1819, lists of all passengers were to be delivered upon arrival to the local collector of customs, who made copies that were then transmitted to the secretary of state and subsequently reported to Congress. The secretary of state also published quarterly and annual summaries under the title of Statement of the Number and Description of Passengers Arriving in the United States between 1820 and 1870. These reports were later published by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department from 1867 to 1895 and by the Office of Immigration, now the Immigration and Naturalization Service, after 1895. The passenger lists make possible a detailed reconstruction of the movement of population from the major sender countries, in the present case Italy, by including information on the age, sex, occupation, and nationality of each passenger and residence and putative destination. Analysis of this information enables the researcher to identify U.S. citizens returning to their country of origin, persons transitting the United States, and inunigrants. The manifests record deaths during the voyage, although information on mortality is not reproduced in these volumes. The lists herein also indicate the name of the ship, the port of embarkation, and the date of arrival in the U.S. port. Although the manifests provide significant information about nineteenth- century immigration, we know relatively little about the actual compilation of these lists. Available evidence suggests that the lists were compiled first by shipping agents at the port of embarkation and initially contained the names of all prepaid passengers; the names of additional passengers were added on board, after which clerks copied the lists before depositing them with U.S. authorities at the port of debarkation.
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