Migration Studies

Ionad Nàiseanta na h-Imrich (National Centre for Migration Studies) Sabhal Mòr Ostaig / Aberdeen University centre for the study of migration in relation to the people of Scotland. Web-site with very useful links and extensive bibliography.

Breaking the Silence: staying at home in an emigrant society. In the 1950s, Ireland was experiencing the highest levels of emigration of the twentieth century. Yet, we know little about the impact of emigration on those who stayed. This project (which was part funded by the Higher Education Authority, Ireland) set out to capture living memories of Irish life in the 1950s by interviewing those who stayed in Ireland in a decade when so many were leaving.

The “Island Register” On-line source for P.E.I. Genealogy, with over 680 P.E.I. lineages, and 4500+ documents online.

Passenger List Reconstruction for the “Polly”, 1803 Selkirk Settlers identified from past and present of P.E.I., Skye, and Hebridean Pioneers, and other sources.

Migration and Assimilation in Nineteenth Century Britain Essay by Dr Donald Spaeth on the British History and the Census site.

Scottish Highland Immigrants and Gaelic in the US 1872-1912
Gaelic Studies resources prepared by Dr. Michael Newton, The School of Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond.

Jacobite Past, Loyalist PresentHighland Soldiers in American Wars.
Gaelic Studies resources prepared by Dr. Michael Newton, The School of Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond.