Obituaries in newspapers. My New Zealand groups are blessed with access to the NZ free online newspapers. Several have stories or summaries of their migration attached/included.
Also newspaper reports of "after dinner" talks given about their arrival.
I have more luck with the smaller-town local newspapers, which tend not to be in the commercial newspaper sites.
Check at the US state level; I've had good luck with the North Carolina newspapers at DigitalNC and the Georgia Historic Newspapers at the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG). Obits and social columns / "Local happenings" galore!
@BRMiller@genchat@RobertJackson58585858@genchat Thanks Betsy. I need to research mainly in Illinois and Iowa, before I go further back into the east coast. My ancestors on both sides immigrated in the 1600’s.
I also subscribe. I also struggle to get the search to work cleanly ... It's also difficult to reproduce a search to find things again :(
So I adopted the approach of screenshotting on my tablet anything I will want to keep then upload that image to my tree. I don't bother "linking" the articles to Ancestry.
The Australian (Trove) and NZ newspapers are a public database & rather good to search. Trove has a bot on Mastodon which pumps out a snippet every hour or two.
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