Immigration and Naturalization Records

Learn Immigration and Naturalization with guest Margaret R. Fortier, Certified Genealogist. In this “footnotes” episode we talk about the best ways to research your immigrant ancestors, where to look online, and the nuances and clues within the records. Also discussed are the ports of entry, migration routes and places to look for your ancestors along the way.

** SHOW NOTES **

Special thanks to Margaret Fortier for her insight and sharing it with us. You can find her at at http://www.mrfortier.com/.

📚 BOOKS
📕 They Became Americans, Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins by Loretto Dennis Szucs
https://amzn.to/2FJo2KF

📕 They Came in Ships by John P. Colletta, PH.D
https://amzn.to/2WG6pCq

TIMINGS:
0:00 Intro: Footnotes episode with Margaret R. Frontier, CG
1:34 Immigration & ships lists
2:18 Manifests records before 1893 were very basic
3:18 More Info included on records after 1893
4:13 Did my ancestors name get changed at Ellis Island?
6:26 Major Ports of Entry. 1820-1873 & 1893-1959
9:53 Terminology: Emigration vs. Immigration
10:34 Manifest before 1893, very informal
12:20 The clues in the records
14:40 Explaining Chain Migration/Family Migration
16:40 Passenger Lists for 1906/1907 and moving forward
18:06 Italian women married in Italy keep their original surnames
20:07 Where to start you research on Immigration
22:45 Did they become a citizen after arriving?
25:22 Naturalization Process
27:59 Exceptions for naturalization
28:31 Finding pictures of the ship your ancestors arrived on
32:04 Is your ancestors name crossed out on the ships manifest?
34:38 Not everyone completed their application
37:11 Recommended books
38:53 Closing

🌐 WEBSITES
🌐D'Vera Cohn, "How U.S. Immigration laws and rules have changed through history,": Pew Research Center, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/.... Interactive timeline.
🌐 "United States Naturalization Laws," FamilySearch FamilySearch wiki, https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/....
🌐 Heritage Ships website with images of immigration ships. This is an unsponsored recommendation.
http://www.heritage-ships.com/
🌐 List of Ports and Times on Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/search/colle...

➡️ ANCESTRY.com U.S., Atlantic Ports Passenger Lists, 1820-1873 and 1893-1959 (scroll down once you get to this link) https://www.ancestry.com/search/colle...

➡️ ANCESTRY.com to search Immigration and Naturalization as shown in this video.
Search Tab
Card Catalog
Immigration and Travel on Left Column
Filter by location on left column (scroll down if needed)
Filter by date if possible
Filter by collection on left if desired (such as passenger list) or search record group in large column on right without filtering by collection.

➡️ FAMILYSEARCH.org Immigration records as shown in this video, follow these steps.
Search Tab
Records
Click on US Map on Right/United States of America
Under Indexed Historical Records, skip name fields and go down to “Restrict Records by…: choose “Type”
Click Immigration and Naturalization and click search
This will give you a list of all the record sets they have for Immigration and Naturalization.
Click on the Collections Tab at the top to methodically search each record set that applies to your ancestor.

📰 NEWSPAPERS
Not mentioned in the video, but another place to look is in newspapers. Newspapers often listed passenger lists and or when ships were arriving and departing and where they were going/coming from.

👍 ABOUT MARGARET FORTIER
Find Margaret R. Fortier, CG ® at ApGen.org.
📽️ Get Started with Your Italian Family History Research (Previous Episode with Margaret Fortier)
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