Description: | The CMS Irish Emigration Database (CMS IED) is a digitised archive of primary source material dealing with Irish emigration to North America (United States and Canada) in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Documents have been sourced from the Public Records Office of NI (PRONI), the Linenhall Library, Central Library, Belfast, and Queen's University Library, Belfast. Types of documents include emigrant letters, parliamentary papers, passenger lists, newspapers articles, shipping advertisements, government reports, journals and diaries of emigrants, family papers with an emigrant connection, statistics and documents in private hands which have been donated or lent. The CMS IED can be researched by keyword, date and document type. It is available in the Library of the Centre for Migration Studies, all NI public libraries and also PRONI, on a password protected basis. The project is ongoing and new documents are being added on a regular basis. The CMS IED is a vital research resource for historians, teachers, students and genealogists with an interest in Irish America
Irish migration research:Undergraduate and postgraduate research, academic research,local and family history research |