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Contents 1 Huguenot Migration 1.1 Australia 1.2 Europe 1.2.1 England, Ireland, Wales 1.2.2 Germany 1.2.3 Netherlands 1.2.4 Switzerland 1.3 North America 1.3.1 Canada (Nouvelle France) 1.3.1.1 Nova Scotia 1.3.2 United States 1.3.2.1 Florida 1.3.2.2 New Netherland (NY, NJ) 1.3.2.3 North Carolina 1.3.2.4 Pennsylvania 1.3.2.5 South Carolina 1.3.2.6 Virginia 1.4 South Africa 1.5 South America 2 Other Sources 2.1 Reliable Sources with Conditions 2.2 Unreliable Sources

Huguenot Migration

• The Huguenot Refuge, https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/le-refuge-huguenot/
  • BIRNSTIEL Eckart (textes réunis par), La Diaspora des Huguenots. Les Réfugiés protestants de France et leur dispersion dans le monde (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Champion, Paris, 2001[1]
  • BOST Hubert et LAURIOL Claude, Refuge et Désert : l’évolution théologique des huguenots de la Révocation à la Révolution française, Actes du Colloque du Centre d'études du XVIIIe siècle (18-19-20 janvier 2001), Champion, Paris, 2003
  • COTTRET Bernard, Terre d’exil. L’Angleterre et ses réfugiés français et wallons de la Réforme à la Révocation de l’édit de Nantes, Aubier, Paris, 1985
• The National Archives: Tracing Huguenot Ancestors, https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/tracing-huguenot-ancestors/

Australia

• Huguenot Society of Australia.

Europe

England, Ireland, Wales

• Gwynn, Robin D. A Calendar of the letter books of the French Church of London from the civil war to the restoration, 1643-1659, Vol. 54-5 (Huguenot Society of London, 1979).
• T. P. Le Fanu and W. H. Manchee, Dublin and Portarlington Veterans, King William III's Huguenot Army (Huguenot Society of London, 1946).
• England Nonconformist Church_Records.
• BMD Registers; The Official Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs Service.
• Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland.
• Wagner, Henry. Huguenot wills and administrations in England and Ireland, 1617-1849: abstracts of Huguenot wills and administrations (Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland, London, 2007-2008).
• Waller, William Chapman. The register of the French Church at Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex, 1684-1726 (Spottiswoode, London, 1912).
• Lart, Charles Edmund. Registers of the French Churches of Bristol, Stonehouse, and Plymouth (Spottiswoode & Co., London, 1912).

Germany

• German Huguenot Society.

Netherlands

• Bibliothèque Wallonne (Leiden), Fiches op de registers, Collectie Mirandolle, 1644-1858. Card index of Huguenots in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and elsewhere.
• Fiches op de registers, Collectie La Rochelle, 1602-1685. Card index to French Reformed Church records of La Rochelle, Charente- Maritime, France. Includes baptisms, marriages and memberships. (Members of this church later settled in The Netherlands.)
• Fiches op de registers, Collectie Montauban, 1647-1682. Card index to French Reformed Church records of Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. Members of this church later settled in The Netherlands.
• Netherlands Project Resources Page.
• Fiches op de Waalse registers, 1500-1828. Card index of Huguenots in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and elsewhere. Known as the Leiden Collection.

Switzerland

• Vivien, Louis. Les families du réfuge en Pays Neuchâtelois. Descendants of French Protestants in the Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Librairie Fischbacher, Paris, 1899).
• Clottu, Olivier. Genealogical Research in the French Speaking Parts of Switzerland , Including Swiss Huguenot Records (World Conference on Records and Genealogical Seminar, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1969).

North America

Canada (Nouvelle France)

Nova Scotia

• Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia.

United States

• National Huguenot Society.
• Baird, Charles Washington. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1885) Link to Vol. 1 at Google Books
• Tepper, Michael. New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Vol. I (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1979).
• Lawton, Eba Anderson. Family Names of Huguenot Refugees to America (Genealogical Research Library, Oakland, California).

Florida

• Parkman, Francis. Pioneers of France in the New World; Huguenots in Florida, Samuel de Champlain (LIttle, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1907).
• The Huguenot Society of Florida.
• Downey, Thomas Edward. The Huguenot Settlements in Florida 1562-1565, Masters Theses (Loyola University, 1934).
• Bryant, Calvin. The Massacre of the Huguenots by the Spanish in Florida (2020).

New Netherland (NY, NJ)

• Baptism and Marriage Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Netherland and Beyond (WikiTree directory page)
• Records of the Dutch Reformed Church. (FamilySearch directory page)
• Le Fevre, Ralph. History of New Paltz, New York and its Old Families (from 1678 to 1820) Including the Huguenot Pioneers and Others who Settled in New Paltz previous to the Revolution.
• Fosdick, Lucian J. The French Blood in America (The Baker & Taylor Co., New York, 1911).
• Wittmeyer, Alfred V., Rev., Registers of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths, of the Eglise Francoise de la Nouvelle York, from 1688 to 1804, New York, New York: Huguenot Society of America, 1886. Collections of the Huguenot Society of America, Vol. 1.

North Carolina

• Lewis, J.D. Carolina - The French Huguenots (Little River, South Carolina, 2007).

Pennsylvania

• Roberts, Charles Rhoades. The First Huguenot Settlers in the Lehigh Valley (Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1918).
• Roberts, Charles R. Genealogical Research Among Pennsylvania German and Huguenot Families (Genealogical Publications of The National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C. 1933).
• Babcock, Charles A. Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People; Embracing a General History of the County, Vol. I (J. H. Beers & Company, Chicago, 1919). [2]
• Elliott, Ella Zerbey. Blue Book of Schuylkill County: Who Was Who and Why in Interior Eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial Days, the Huguenots and Palatines, Their Service in Queen Annes, French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars ; History of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and Many Other Representative Families (Joseph Zerbey Publishers, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1916).

South Carolina

• Maurer, Nancy Lea. The Evolution of French Identity: A Study of the Huguenots in Colonial South Carolina, 1680-1740. Master of Arts thesis, University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida, Summer Term 2006).
• Ravenel, Daniel. Liste des Francois et Suisses, from an old manuscript list of French and Swiss Protestants, settled in Charleston, on the Santee, and at Orange Quarter, in Carolina, who desired Naturalization, prepared probably about 1695-6; with Introductory Remarks. (William G. Mazyck, Charleston, South Carolina, 1868).
• Childs, St. Julien R. "The Petit-Guerard Colony" in New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Vol. I, by Michael Tepper (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1979) pp. 204-234.
• Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.

Virginia

• 1621 Round Robin petition signed by Walloons and French to settle Virginia represented 227 people (including 56 signers). That settlement did not occur, but many of the families listed appear later in New Netherland records.
• Tyler, Lyon G. History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County, Virginia (The Board of Supervisors of Elizabeth City County, Hampton, Virginina, 1922).
• Dickerson, Melford Sherman. Huguenot Lineage Research: A Bibliography Based on Migration Routes (1996) Early Huguenots In Virginia.
• Warder, Bill. From Forraine Parts: Non-English Europeans at Jamestown, 1607-1625
• Pinney, Thomas. A History of Wine in America, From the Beginnings to Prohibition (University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1989).
• Virginia Huguenot Society
• Communication from Governor Francis Nicholson of Virginia, to the British lords of trade : concerning the Huguenot settlement with "list of ye refugees", August 12th, 1700. "Miscellaneous Papers, 1672-1865..." in Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, New Series, Vol. VI (William Ellis Jones, Richmond, Virginia, 1887).
• Library of Virginia.
• The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia.
• Harper, Lillie DuPuy VanCulin. Colonial men and times : containing the journal of Col. Daniel Trabue, some account of his ancestry, life and travels in Virginia and the present state of Kentucky during the Revolutionary period : the Huguenots : genealogy, with brief sketches of the allied families, Lillie Du Puy Van Culin Harper, ed., (Innes & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1916).
• Brock, Robert Alonzo. Documents, Chiefly Unpublished, relating to the Hugenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin Town (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1962).
• Jones, W. Mac. The Douglas Register : being a detailed record of births, marriages and deaths together with other interesting notes, as kept by the Rev. William Douglas, from 1750 to 1797; an index of Goochland wills, notes on the French-Huguenot refugees who lived in Manakin-Town (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 2007).

South Africa

• Dutch Cape Colony 1652-1806.
• Huguenot Society of South Africa.
• Botha, Colin Graham. The French Refugees at the Cape, Second Edition (Cape Times Limited, Cape Town, 1921).
• South African Roots Project.

South America

Many articles include a group of Huguenots that traveled to an island in Guanabara Bay in Brazil in1555, but were later captured and murdered by Portuguese troops.

Other Sources

Reliable Sources with Conditions

• Baptisms, Marriages & Burials found at Ancestry ($).
• Records found at FamilySearch, including births, marriages & deaths
• Records obtained from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
• Records obtained from the National Archives.

Unreliable Sources

• Ancestry.com user-generated family trees.
• FamilySearch family trees.