DEATHYEAR:year of death of a person in a dataset – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:55:33 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Irish Emigrants Manifest Database https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100006/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:41:41 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=545 To be summarized: The “Irish Emigrants Manifest Database” is an Excel file containing the name, age, occupation, birthplace, ship name, and arrival date for 18,000 of the 916,000 Irish immigrants who arrived at the port of New York from 1846 to 1854. It is not a random sample, but was created almost entirely from those manifests which gave detailed information (county, parish, or town) for each…

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]]> Strangers in the West Source Material https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100003/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:21:30 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/strangers-in-the-west-source-material/ This data consists of the supporting material for the book Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900 (New York, 2015), and consists of persons microdata from census sources on New York City residents from the last decades of the nineteenth century. In additional to primary persons information, the data contain names and relationships of others in the household.

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