Plymouth didn’t have an immigration station in 1620

Centralized Federal immigration records began about 1880 in response to increasing numbers of people who arrived sick, with no means of support or someone to sponsor them. In 1891 provisions were added to sort people entering by land through Mexico and Canada. In the late 1800’s forty percent of people entering Canadian ports were bound for America. A good place to look for these online would be collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy. Earlier immigration was poorly recorded at…