Immigration and Naturalization Records

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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 www.mrfortier.com/.
📚 BOOKS
📕 They Became Americans, Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins by Loretto Dennis Szucs
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📕 They Came in Ships by John P. Colletta, PH.D
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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, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/.... Interactive timeline.
🌐 "United States Naturalization Laws," FamilySearch FamilySearch wiki, www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/....
🌐 Heritage Ships website with images of immigration ships. This is an unsponsored recommendation.
www.heritage-ships.com/
🌐 List of Ports and Times on Ancestry
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) 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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@charlottekerns5633 4 жыл бұрын

Margaret's comment about the British citizens coming to America via Canada is true for one branch of my family. They were members of a workhouse in Blytheburgh/Bulcamp. I have a list of 'inmates' of the workhouse requesting passage from the church to emigrate from there to British America. My great great grandfather, his wife and their baby daughter were on that list. I am aware that there are steamship records in Canada in the from 1820 to 1836 along the St. Lawrence River. The one that would have my ancestor and his family is 1836 and, of course, is the only one that isn't digitised so I don't know where in Canada they landed and took a steamship from. They ended up in a place called Louisville Landing, St. Lawrence County, NY and had 8 additional children. On his obituary he is listed as a "miller".

@chris_troiano 2 жыл бұрын

Passport applications are such great resources for ancestors who have been naturalized, I found a lot of narrative information to help piece together a story of their lives.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

They are great, when you can find them. Congratulations on your passport application find.

@patricianazareth7351 5 жыл бұрын

So much excellent information is shared in this video! Must see for all who are researching..

@GenealogyTV 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Feel free to share links, join us on Facebook if you’re not already there or join the newsletter list to keep in touch. Glad you’re enjoying the videos.

@suzannechalifoux8587 2 ай бұрын

Wow! So much information in this video. Thank you so much!

@GenealogyTV 2 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@karenosborne219 5 жыл бұрын

I learned that I need to do a maternal dna to find my grandmothers mother in Slovakia Thank you for your knowledge

@GenealogyTV 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Thanks for watching.

@cindyjugglegoddess7821 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing the expertise you have and that your guests offer. I have followed you before, and was happily reminded about your channel when you presented recently at roots tech 2022. I have ancestors I am currently researching who were born in Newfoundland Canada and appear on the 1880 US census in San Francisco California, which is where my family is from. Absolutely wonderful to learn that I can stop searching for the immigration record of their border crossing, as your expert has informed me that those records didn’t begin until 1895. So much to learn and thank you again for spreading the knowledge 🙏🏻 Really enjoy your approach and wishing you supersonic success with your KZfaq channel 🎉

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cindy. It is growing fast... and I'm having fun with it. Thanks for the kind words.

@59kuphoff 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this information! Because of what I have learned i was able to find my 3X great grandmother whom I have been searching for- for months. Woo hoo!!

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Oh happy dance!

@pegpowell2237 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview, lots of good info that every genealogist needs.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peg and thanks for becoming a channel member.

@johnp6260 2 жыл бұрын

Novice genealogist here. Thanks so much for another great informative video. Your videos have been most helpful. I must start research logs and notes as well as better organize my digital files. I had to stop a few times while reviewing the maternal side to ask myself why is that person there and how did I know to place them there. Then having to back track to reconfirm it is correct.

@michaelstarnes2297 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, working on my second UCIS request right now!

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

@1SassyCrafter 5 жыл бұрын

I have every link you provided in the notes now open in tabs and can't wait to dig in! My great grandfather came over in 1913 from Italy on the Canada (I found his Naturalization Papers). You guessed it, I'm heading over to see the ship and then to watch the other video for Italy ;) TFS~Linda :)

@GenealogyTV 5 жыл бұрын

Love your comment Linda. Check out The History Guy. He does these little mini documentaries about the various ships. He might’ve done one on the Canada.

@1SassyCrafter 5 жыл бұрын

Genealogy TV thanks, Connie! Will do 😊

@1SassyCrafter 5 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV well, I went and searched and fell down the rabbit hole of so many other videos! LOL I didn't see a video about the ship Canada, but found videos about the NYC Blackout of 1977, the Gambino Family, Edgar Allen Poe, and some others lol Thanks, I'll be going back ~Linda :)

@xochxrry6857 3 жыл бұрын

@@1SassyCrafter Italian ancestry is so difficult. In my town where my ancestors were from in Sicily the records do not go back far. Do you have any specific links or websites you like to use?

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Look at MyHeritage and FindMYpast to see if they have anything.

@dianad.5312 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the search tips to use on Family Search, it can be overwhelming without tips on how to narrow the search

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@no1975 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly you can't read them have to keep enlarging it

@aliciawilliams7994 5 жыл бұрын

I am researching my husband's great grandfather. As far as we know he might have come into NY then possibly recruited directly into the Navy for the Civil War Jan 1865. I was told that if they served like he did he did NOT have to Apply for Naturalization. Which means I won't have that really important document. Is this true? Can you do a video on this? Or do you have one?

@GenealogyTV 5 жыл бұрын

I don’t have a video specific to this. I have to give this some thought.

@edgewaterz Жыл бұрын

I have a naturalized certificate number for Milwaukee Circuit court from 1892 but I can't find it in and Ancestry or FamilySearch collections. I've looked in every catalog available online. At a loss where to look.

@GenealogyTV Жыл бұрын

Try the national archives nara.gov

@milagrosfonseca7407 3 жыл бұрын

My ancestors came from Portugal in the late 1700's but I don't have any information about when they came or who came with them. If they came to Ellis Island or any port. Joseph Fonseca born 1738. Supposing he married his wife in Puerto Rico named Antonia Ramos in Toa Alta, PR. I don't have anything on her. Also records are so badly kept in Puerto Rico, and many of them accidently destroyed without copying them. without

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

I understand. I do know Ancestry has some records. With all the hurricanes down there, I'm surprised anything survives.

@michaelmason2128 2 жыл бұрын

I was told my great grandparents died on the way from Italy. How do you find out this info.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

You might find it in the passenger records if you are lucky. If you find the passenger records for the ship they came in on, sometimes in the front matter of the roll there is an accounting of how many people came, how many died, etc.

@Tyler-zo6xe Жыл бұрын

In my research, I have a hole for my ancestor who was born in Wendron, Cornwall, England. She was on the 1881 Census locally. She showed up marrying my 2nd great grandfather in Kansas in 1883. She states on several censuses She arrived in 1881. It also shows she was naturalized. I can't locate her arrival or ship yet. I was looking for first papers but when I called the historical society, the lady reminded me that women didn't do that then. They took on husband's nationality. I was just thinking about immigrants. So were wives automatically naturalized when they married American husbands?

@GenealogyTV Жыл бұрын

Yes. So you might not find naturalization papers for her. On the flip side, there was a time when U.S. women lost their citizenship if they married an non-U.S. immigrant.

@Tyler-zo6xe Жыл бұрын

@Genealogy TV thank you. Since that takes away my immigration clue source, have you done any other videos on how to find her entry? I've been trying for Canadian records, but can see only arrivals in 1881 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, putting that idea of arrivals in Montreal as not totally accurate. Anyway, I've enjoyed your videos, and they've been helpful in my research. Keep doing a great job.

@Tyler-zo6xe Жыл бұрын

I broke through this brick wall when I found a comment in her obituary saying she came to America with her Aunt and her family. And with some further research I found her aunt and uncle bought the property adjacent to the property of the bachelor who would become her husband and my 2nd great grandfather. I also found their entry and she was right there on that list in New York in May of 1881. I also discovered this aunt and uncle arrived even earlier and made a home in California for 10 years before returning to England again for 5 years before finally returning to America with my 2nd great grandmother.

@Tyler-zo6xe Жыл бұрын

I might add the ship was called the S.S. Arizona departing from Queenstown, Ireland and Liverpool, England. It arrived 2 May 1881 in New York.