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This is the immigrating relative I wanted to remember today. He travelled alone from England to New York to live and work with relatives. He was there for the 1850 census and appears in immigration records.
@MarianBWood@genchat Yes! If it weren't for the naturalization records, I may never have found the ships that my Polish & Lithuanian ancestors arrived on! (And you know that their names are going to be screwy on the indexes!) #genchat
@OurAncestors@genchat Yes, and if you're really lucky, you can read the writing! Last night, Diane gave a good tip to look at the whole manifest to familiarize yourself with the handwriting on the document. #genchat
@genchat@genchat A3 Tell us when people arrived, possibly who they traveled with, help us discover return trips to country of origin and back to U.S., leads on where they planned on settling. For U.S. ports - often depends on when they arrived (more info in later years) and if everything that was supposed to be recorded was
@OurAncestors@genchat#genchat Yes! My great-grandfather originally came to Newark, NJ, but I have no other record than the passenger list. It explains the fact of his NJ friends.
@bethroots@genchat#genchat Also, the Great Migration Project (on AmericanAncestors.org) is a great colonial immigration resource. It doesn't have everyone of course, but they do have a lot!