Famine Emigration to America Database - Find your Ancesters
Added: 11 Jul 2016
Contributor:
Linda Murphy
Resource type:
Reference
/
Secondary Source
This immigration record collection includes more than 604,000 immigrants from Ireland during the Great Famine, covering the years 1846 through 1851, and arriving at the Port of New York. Immigrants from other countries are also included, such as Canada, Brazil, Russia, and Morocco.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- SESE History
Strand: Local Studies
Strand unit: My Locality through the Ages
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become familiar with important events in the history of the locality, referring to the wider national context where relevant; possible events might include
- collect related local ballads, stories and traditions
- study a period or periods in the history of the local village, town, city area, townland, parish or county
Suggestions for use: Set a homework task whereby pupils need to go home and ask parents/ grandparents about their ancestry to see if anyone immigrated to America during the years 1846-1851. Pupils need to record the names of people who did so that they can research these names in class on this database. Alternatively, ask pupils to sit down with parents and look at the database together, recording what they found or heard.
