Scarecrow Press
Pages: 560
Trim: 10½ x 9¼
978-0-8108-5631-8 • Hardback • November 2005 • $210.00 • (£162.00)
Ira Glazier is the former Director of The Center for Migration Research at The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and Immigration. He is currently the director of
castlegarden.org for The Battery Conservancy in New York.
The late
P. William Filby served for many years as the director of the Maryland Historical Society.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Lists of Codes
Chapter 4 Occupations
Chapter 5 Villages
Chapter 6 Destinations
Part 7 Key
Part 8 Passenger Lists
Part 9 Index
These will be useful in comprehensive genealogical collections and also in those collections that are interested in migration patterns.
— American Reference Books Annual
...researchers can obtain information on Italian immigrants...The age, sex, occupation, village, and destination of the immigrant, as well as the name of the ship, its port of departure, port of arrival, and date of arrival are also found there.
— St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly, Spring 2007
Aimed at genealogists and historians, the Italians to America series provides an extensive database of Italian immigrants who came to the U.S. between 1880 and 1915. The information was compiled from original passenger lists, which were filed by all vessels entering U.S. ports. Arranged chronologically by arrival date, they list the age, sex, and occupation of individual passengers as well as village of origin and destination when available. Volume 20 covers those who arrived during the period June 1902-October 1902. It also features an overview of Italian-U.S. migration in the introduction and an index of surnames. Glazier is director of the Temple-Balch Institute's Center for Immigration Research, and Filby is former director of the Maryland Historical Society.
— Reference and Research Book News