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Many are from ship passenger lists between and Some historical notes also accompany the lists. Most of the names are male but some female names are included too. Other extras include, some ages, acreage owned in certain townships, and a list of name interpretations. It also contains passport application registers for —, —, and — Passports issued March 4—5, numbers — are missing from the NARA collection and not in this database. For more than years following this event, Baden would be involved in both political and economic turmoil, which led many people to leave the area.

While it may take months or years to find an American document stating where an immigrant ancestor was born or resided in Germany, searching emigration records may produce that information in far less time. This index, compiled by the Badischen Generallandesarchive Karlsruhe and microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, contains the names of over 28, persons who left Baden between and Wives were not indexed separately unless they traveled alone or with their children.

Children who left with one or both parents were not indexed. The emigration lists were sent from district offices scattered throughout the state of Baden, to one central office. Lists dating before the Revolution do not cover British subjects since their status remained unchanged by their removal from one part of the King's dominion to another.

These lists consist of names of those people who swore an oath of allegiance to the British Sovereign. Naturalization is a grant of the full legal rights and privileges of a native-born individual to a non-native foreigner. In England, in the American colonies, and in the United States, naturalizations have been granted by special legislative act, or by court proceedings authorized by legislation.

Under British statute of , an alien who had resided in a colony for at lest seven years could be naturalized by swearing an oath of allegiance before a local magistrate. Immigrants from England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland were not considered aliens, because they were already subjects of the British crown. Strassburger and William J. Volume III contains indexes to the names of passengers, captains, and ships.

Volume II has facsimilies of all signatures on the original lists. Rupp, Israel D. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Dunn, Mary. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Record Description. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, FamilySearch Resources. Pennsylvania Guided Research. Pennsylvania Record Finder. Research Tips and Strategies. Step-by-Step Research. Pennsylvania, United States Genealogy. Pennsylvania Emigration and Immigration.

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