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LESSON TEN
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| READING ASSIGNMENT: Click here for Chapter 10 Tracing your immigrant ancestors in the 1700s is no easy task, but it has been made so much easier in the past few years through the help of compiled records. Chapter 10 covered the historical background, overview, and nature of records in the colonial period; methods for locating supplemental records surrounding immigration and naturalization from Filby's Passenger and Immigration Lists Index; early church and community records, and compiled sources. Each section in Chapter 10 focused on specific resources to make your research in the original records easier to perform, not to enable you to skip the original documents. After all, compiled resources are secondary records and subject to an enormous amount of misinterpretation and transcription errors. One compiled resource that was just touched on but has great application on Colonial research is the record group known as periodicals because it deals with compilations of immigrant records. And one very useful name index, seldom considered an index to periodicals, but it is, was P. William Filby’s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. Since the objective of that index is to identify immigrants in published materials, it indexes more than a thousand articles dealing with immigrants in hundreds of genealogical periodicals. Collectively these indexed articles include over a million references to immigrants, including a large percentage of colonial immigrants. Although not every article discusses an immigrant’s origins, each name is a documented immigrant. Here are samples from Filby’s Index.
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