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COMING TO AMERICA

Used some of the same resources used for "Jan Poot's Ministry in the Netherlands"

Millions of immigrants who were processed through Ellis Island can be found via comptuer
search and images of their records displayed at the website created by the Ellis Island
Foudation: www.ellisisland.org
Website about ships of the world: www.TheShipsList.com

Hans Segboers' great "Unofficial Holland American Line" website: www.unofficial.com/hal

Tidbits and photos from the America Memory portion of the Library of Congress at:
memory.loc.gov

Immigrant processing procedures are from Ancestry Magazine Vol 21 No 2, March 2003;
"Castle Garden: the Forgotten Gateway" by Barry Moreno.

Also from ISTG Compass - Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Castle Garden Special.
Internet address: www.immigantships.net

"From Holland to Holland, Dutch Immigration to Michigan", a student research project
done for ThinkQuest 2000. Done by team C005615 - Elizabeth Dahm, Gerhard and Peter
Dijkstra. Website: www.thinkquest.org

LIFE IN KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

Some historical photos were found at the Library of Congress: memory.loc.gov
A great quantity of photographs, obituaries, and historical information came from the
Kalamazoo Public Library at: www.kpl.gov

Additional data found in the excellent site at Rootsweb: www.rootsweb.com/~mikalama

Some citations of historical vital records of Michigan were at:
www.MiFamilyHistory.org/databases.asp

Many fascinating details can be found in the pictorial history book: "Kalamazoo: The Place
Behind the Products" by Larry B. Massie & Peter J Schmitt, Windsor Publications, 1981.
Some valuable information came from Sharon Carlson in the Archives and Regional History
Collections at the Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She provided city directory
listings 1887-1893, Kalamazoo Gazette citations of infant deaths, and a card in the Ross
Collier Collection that tells of JW Poot leaving the Presbytery. Michele Behr was
instrumental in orchestrating my success. Website: www.wmich.edu.

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