http://www.chicagohs.org/immigration.html
Global Communities: Chicago's immigrants and refugees

Ellis Island Online http://www.ellisisland.org/Immexp/index.asp?

The American Immigration Home Page  http://www.bergen.gov/AAST/Projects/Immigration/index.html 
Written by two tenth-grade students as part of an American History project. This excellent site traces the history of immigration, both legal and illegal, to this country from 1607 to the present. 

History Channel  http://www.historychannel.com/ 
Search to find general background information on immigration of many groups. 

Immigration in American Memory  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immig.html 
Library of Congress American Memories Project.  Find photos, movies, and personal narratives reflecting immigrant life. 

Immigration: the Journey to America  http://hyperion.advanced.org/20619/ 
Overview of the immigration of eight ethnic groups. 

Immigration and Naturalization Service  http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/index.htm 
Statistics. 

Lower East Side Tenement Museum  http://www.wnet.org/tenement 
Life in a New York City tenement circa 1870-1915 is shown in this interactive site.  Click on the windows of the tenement to see day-to-day life, in pictures and text. 

 

Specific Ethnic Groups 

Chinese Immigrants

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation  http://www.aiisf.org/

Central Pacific Railroad Photography History Museum http://www.cprr.org/Museum/

English Immigrants

Revealing Family Ancestry: Emigrating to the New World  http://www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/page9.html 
From a 1850s London magazine, the emigration process from Liverpool to America.  Detailed.

German Immigrants

Comprehensive list of links from University of Cincinnati  http://www.archives.uc.edu/german/Immigration.html

Irish Immigrants

Boston Family History  http://www.bostonfamilyhistory.com/

Irish Immigration Center  http://www.iicenter.org/

Japanese Immigrants 

Japanese American History Archives http://www.amacord.com/fillmore/museum/jt/jaha/jaha.html

National Japanese American Historical Society  http://www.njahs.org/


Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish Immigrants