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Immigration

The Local History Room has resources on contemporary immigration to the Boston area as well as materials on historic immigration to both the Boston area and the United States as a whole.

American Journeys. produced by Joel Nitzberg ; tapes transcribed by Denise Silva, Somerville Community Schools, 1988. S32 NI

Interviews with new Somervillians.

The Complete Book of Emigrants. by Peter Wilson Coldham. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987-c1992. 973.0042 CO

The Portuguese in Cambridge and Somerville: combined edition. prepared by James P. Ito-Adler. Cambridge, MA: Department of Community Development, 1972-1977. 325.469 PO

The Urban Borderlands Project. A collection of reports and oral history interviews conducted by students of Professor Pacini-Sanchez of Tufts University in 2002. 325 UR

Works include Salvadorans in Somerville : Changes in Family Structure and Gender Roles among Salvadoran Immigrants, Speaking in tongues : Latinos, medical interpretation and translation issues in Somerville, The Latino business community in Somerville, Mass.

On CD-ROM (available at the reference desk):

Passenger and Immigration Lists: Boston, 1821-1850. [Novato, CA]: Broderbund Software, c1988.

Passenger and Immigration Lists: Index, 1500s-1900s [Novato, CA]: Broderbund Software, 2000.

Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846-1865 [Novato, CA]: The Learning Company, c1999.

The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot, 1831-1920. Boston, MA : New England Historic Genealogical Society, c2002.