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Finding Your Canadian Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, by Sherry Irvine and Dave Obee

Filed Under Canada By BIll Gladstone on April 1, 2008

Finding Your Canadian Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, by Sherry Irvine and Dave Obee. Softcover, large format, 270 pages. Ancestry Publishing, Provo, Utah. $18.95. Available through Ancestry.com Several Jewish-Canadian historians have done an admirable job in recent decades of demonstrating how […]

“Deported—Likely to Become a Public Charge”

Filed Under United States By Fay Bussgang on April 1, 2008

Shocking words! Especially when you discover that they were applied to your mother’s family. Yet these were the words I saw on the document before me that I had just chanced upon while searching for something else. I had long […]

Researching Old U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Correspondence and Case Files

Filed Under United States By James H. Gross on April 1, 2008

An earlier version of this article was published July–September 2005 in NW Updates, an internal, National Archives electronic newsletter—Ed.      For determined and methodical researchers looking for a fascinating yet obscure gem of a resource related to 20th-century immigration […]

Coming to America through Hamburg and Liverpool Part II: Crossing the Atlantic

Filed Under Deutschland, Methods, United Kingdom, United States By Harry Boonin on April 1, 2008

In Part I of the saga, “Coming to America Through Hamburg and Liverpool,” in AVOTAYNU, Vol. XXII, No. 4, (Winter 2006), pp. 15–22, we tracked the six Boonin children across Europe to Hamburg, their crossing of the North Sea, their […]

Small Light

Filed Under United States By Valerie Wayne on December 1, 2007

When she came to the phone, she said, “I know who you are.” It was about 5:00 p.m. on the East Coast, September 21, 2005. Her daughter, Amy, answered and said her mother was outside. Could she call me back? […]

My Faceless Grandfather

Filed Under United States By Jeffrey Arkin on December 1, 2007

The challenge for us genealogists is to learn as much as possible about ancestors whom we never or hardly ever knew. We strive to give them a face, to bring them back to life through our research. I was fortunate […]

Genealogy Changed My Life

Filed Under United States By Jim Van Buskirk on December 1, 2007

“I have something to tell you, and I want you to hear it from me while I’m alive.” I had no idea what my mother was going to say. “You are Jewish.” I knew that her mother’s parents, Noemi David […]

Finding Emigrants Who Sailed Under a Different Name

Filed Under Canada, Methods, United States By Stephen Denker on October 1, 2007

After five years of fruitless searching, I finally found the ship manifest for my grandfather and his parents. I had critical help. Someone else actually did it. The method used may be useful to others. A marine historian, Allan Jordan, […]

Using the 1890 New York City Police Census To Find Family Records

Filed Under United States By Jeffrey Miller on October 1, 2007

I have had success in using the Steve Morse web portal <www.stevemorse.org> and the Ancestry.com for-fee website  to research family members and to locate family records in United States censuses. Since I have learned from my research that one of […]

How to Locate a Hard-to-Find Library Holding

Filed Under United States By Edward David Luft on July 1, 2007

My genealogical efforts center around two activities, research into my family history and the compilation of an exhaustive bibliography on the Jews of Posen, today Poznań, Poland. In the course of researching both, I frequently look for such printed items […]

Immigrants to Argentina Listed as Baron de Hirsch Colonists

Filed Under Argentina By Paul Armony (z"l) on July 1, 2007

In 1881, after the murder of Czar Alexander II, the new Czar, Alexander III, appointed Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev as interior minister and charged him with solving the so-called “Jewish problem.” Accordingly, Ignatiev initiated a policy to persecute Jews and […]

United States Citizenship Records: Derivative, Replacement, and Repatriation Certificate Files

Filed Under Avotaynu Features, United States By Zack Wilske on December 1, 1900

Family history researchers long have known the value of naturalization records. Most researchers interested in documenting naturalizations in the United States begin by searching for court copies of the records that today are located in courthouses, local archives, and regional […]

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