My Immigrant Ancestors

Author : Theresa Prouty-Cole
Publisher : TPC Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781636848464

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My Immigrant Ancestors by Theresa Prouty-Cole Pdf

Historian Gordon Wood states it well: “Precisely because we are not a people held together by blood, no one knows who an American is except by what they believe. It’s important that we do know our history, because our history is the source of our Americanness.” Do you know the history of your Ancestors? Have you ever wondered where your ancestors landed when they first arrived on American soil? Can you just imagine what was going through their minds as they gathered up their belongings and disembarked after a lengthy ocean crossing? Terri helps you find the answers to these questions and many others in her guide “My Immigrant Ancestors – A Guide to Help You Jumpstart Your Journey”. This guide will help you start your search for your Immigrant Ancestors. In each chapter there are sections called My Example. These sections are what makes Terri’s guide uniquely different from other guides you may have purchased. There are over 45 Examples including family pictures, images and texts of what Terri discovered while on her Journey. She shares how she obtained the information, what she learned from the search and where it led her to research additional family history. Terri identifies Four Steps in the Journey: 1 Organizing and Documenting Your Current Information, 2 Conducting Interviews, 3 Preparing to Search and, 4 Focus Your Ancestor Search. She also lists Five Benefits she believes you will experience: 1 – Increase Your World as You Know It, 2 - Know your own Personal History, 3 – Expand Your Sense of Being an American, 4 – Keep Your Family Memories and Traditions Alive and, 5 – Discover the Mystery of you – DNA.

Author : John Philip Colletta
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Passenger Lists
ISBN : 091648937X

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They Came in Ships by John Philip Colletta Pdf

Provides information on searching passenger ship lists and indexes, naturalization and immigration records, and genealogical Websites to find records of ancestors who came to the United States on ships.

Author : Donna B. Gawell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541099982

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Travel Back to Your Roots by Donna B. Gawell Pdf

Trace your immigrant ancestors using the vast collection of US records so that you have the essential information needed to locate records in Europe. The author's goal is to inspire others who have little to no idea of how or where to begin this adventure. Join the author as she details her strategies that located living descendants of her ancestors and her efforts to contact them. This book also includes instructions on how to plan a genealogy or family history trip to meet these Europeans cousins. The author started out four years ago knowing almost nothing about her grandparents' families. After uncovering thousands of records and photos, she went to Europe twice on "trips of a lifetime" to meet three welcoming and enthusiastic sets of families in Sweden and Poland.

Author : Janice Nickerson,Upper Canada Genealogy (Society)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0973001704

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Thirty-One Ways to Identify Your Immigrant Ancestor's Origins by Janice Nickerson,Upper Canada Genealogy (Society) Pdf

Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0916489957

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Ellis Island by Loretto Dennis Szucs Pdf

Beneath the shadow of the Statue of Liberty stands Ellis Island, threshold of liberty for more than 16 million immigrants. For them and countless others whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents began a new American life there, Ellis Island is the symbolic shrine to freedom and opportunity. Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway gives a family history approach to this famous monument's history. With morethan 30 images, it includes an overview of the history of immigration, a description of the process each immigrant endured at Ellis Island, and basic instruction on how to find out if an ancestor came through Ellis Island.

Author : Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : WISC:89077185502

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A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant & Ethnic Ancestors by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Pdf

Research techniques specific to the reader's own ancestors' national and ethnic backgrounds enable them to learn where and how to find information they need. Ethnic research techniques and ethnic resources make this book unique from any we've ever published. Ethnic research techniques lead researchers to records based on customs or migration patterns of specific ethnic groups. Ethnic resources are organized around national and cultural backgrounds rather than geography and social statuses such as married, divorced, sued, and so on. Clear, authoritative instruction typifies both the content of this book and the reputation of its author, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.

Author : Frederick Adams Virkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1310271057

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Immigrant ancestors; a list of 2,500 immigrants to America before 1750 by Frederick Adams Virkus Pdf

Author : Sharon Carmack
Publisher : Family Tree Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1558706941

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The Family Tree Guide to Finding Your Ellis Island Ancestors by Sharon Carmack Pdf

Island of Tears No More! Embark on the journey of finding your Ellis Island ancestors Nearly 20 million immigrants arrived through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924 - roughly 40 percent of Americans descend from these "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Since the Ellis Island website launched in April 2001, there have been more than 60,000 users visiting it every day, trying to find their ancestors. For some researchers, locating their immigrant ancestors in Ellis Island's massive database of passenger arrival lists is a snap. For others, the "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" takes on a new meaning. You know your ancestors are in that giant computer file somewhere, but where? The Family Tree Guide to Finding Your Ellis Island Ancestors is here to help. In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover: the basic information you need to begin your search. tips and strategies for successfully finding your Ellis Island ancestors online. how passenger lists were created and what information they contain. how to use microfilmed passenger lists and indexes. what to do if you're still coming up empty-handed. Journey with your ancestors as you learn what it was like for them to travel across the ocean by steamship, how they processed through Ellis Island, and where to find information and photographs of your ancestor's ship. And for those who had ancestors who arrived right before the Ellis Island years, a special chapter is devoted to Castle Garden and its arrivals. It's the only guide you'll need for finding your Ellis Island ancestors.

Author : Frederick Adams Virkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : United States
ISBN : 0806365196

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Immigrant Ancestors by Frederick Adams Virkus Pdf

Author : Frederick Adams Virkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:33137270

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Immigrant Ancestors by Frederick Adams Virkus Pdf

Author : John Francis Mancini
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798485647469

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Immigrant Secrets by John Francis Mancini Pdf

Like many of their greatest generation compadres, my parents, Joseph and Sallyann, quickly headed from New York City to the suburbs in the 1950s shortly after they were married. They arrived in New Jersey, and began their own personal population explosion, having six kids-John, June, Joseph, Jennifer, Jeffrey, and Jeanne-within an eleven-year span. Yes, all Js. It was a typical story of life in the suburbs. Imagine the television show The Wonder Years set in New Jersey, and you can get the picture. On The Wonder Years, you always had a feeling there was some untold story concerning Kevin's father Jack and his father. Bit by bit over the years, the backstory is revealed. Kevin's father was born in 1927. He grew up during the Great Depression, served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War, and worked as a product distribution manager at NORCOM, a somewhat mysterious large military defense company. Later, he started his own business building and selling handcrafted furniture. In the last episode, it was revealed that he died of a heart attack in 1975. There are certain parallels. My father was born in 1925. He grew up during the Great Depression, served in the US Navy during WWII and worked as a business analyst at Union Carbide, a somewhat mysterious large chemical company. Later, he started his own business with a friend, but I have no idea what they did. In my father's last episode, he had a heart attack in New York City in 1987 shortly after officially retiring. There is one significant difference between Jack Arnold in the Wonder Years and my father. My father had no "backstory." My father never mentioned his family. Never. We only knew - or thought we knew - that his parents died in the 1930s. Unless you knew my father -- the consummate family man -- you will have no idea how weird this was. And therein are the seeds of my quest to unravel our family history mystery. In a pair of ship manifests, I discovered my father's parents, a pair of Italian immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in the early 1920s, intent on grabbing their share of the American dream. In the 1930 Census, I found a family of four - my grandparents, my father and his brother -- with a tenuous foothold on that dream, operating a small fruit stand in Manhattan. After that, I had mostly frustrating dead-ends -- until the release of the 1940 Census. My grandparents magically reappeared in the Census - but as "inmates" at the Rockland Insane Asylum, never to reemerge. And through my entire lifetime until my father's death, there was no mention that he had an extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins, all living within driving distance. What happened? Who were these people? How did their lives go so awry? And why all the secrecy? This is a story about my efforts to use genealogy to discover the truth about our family and a reflection on the impact of secrets on our lives. It is also the story of what it means to be an immigrant - and the impact that "otherness" and mental illness can have on the vulnerable. And lastly, it is my attempt to think through the "why" and "how" of my father, 34 years after his death.

Author : Howard Finney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:428453010

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Immigrant Ancestors by Howard Finney Pdf

Author : Sara Tanke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781329783133

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Immigrant Ancestors by Sara Tanke Pdf

The history of my immigrant ancestors from England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Wales

Author : Stephen Szabados
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : German Americans
ISBN : 9798631331525

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German Immigration to America by Stephen Szabados Pdf

If you are researching your German family history, this book is a must-read. The book should help you answer the questions, why did our German ancestors immigrate; when did they leave; how did they get here; where did they settle? It includes descriptions of many aspects of German history that effected immigration to America, and the material should give you vital insights into your ancestors' immigration. Remember that each immigrant has a unique story, and it is our challenge to dig out as many details of their immigration saga as we can when doing our family history research.I am sure this book will help point the way to many exciting stories about your family history. The stories will help your ancestors come alive. Our immigrant ancestors are the foundation of our roots in the United States. Our lives would be much different if they did not endure the challenges of emigration from Germany. Do not underestimate their contributions. They played a critical role in factories and farms in the United States. Their lives were building blocks in the growth of their new country.

Author : Levi Elmore Coe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU18784208

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Coe-Ward Memorial and Immigrant Ancestors ... by Levi Elmore Coe Pdf