Download or read book My Immigrant Ancestors written by Theresa Prouty-Cole and published by TPC Publishing. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Gordon Wood states it well: “Precisely because we are not a people held together by blood, no one knows who an American is except by what they believe. It’s important that we do know our history, because our history is the source of our Americanness.” Do you know the history of your Ancestors? Have you ever wondered where your ancestors landed when they first arrived on American soil? Can you just imagine what was going through their minds as they gathered up their belongings and disembarked after a lengthy ocean crossing? Terri helps you find the answers to these questions and many others in her guide “My Immigrant Ancestors – A Guide to Help You Jumpstart Your Journey”. This guide will help you start your search for your Immigrant Ancestors. In each chapter there are sections called My Example. These sections are what makes Terri’s guide uniquely different from other guides you may have purchased. There are over 45 Examples including family pictures, images and texts of what Terri discovered while on her Journey. She shares how she obtained the information, what she learned from the search and where it led her to research additional family history. Terri identifies Four Steps in the Journey: 1 Organizing and Documenting Your Current Information, 2 Conducting Interviews, 3 Preparing to Search and, 4 Focus Your Ancestor Search. She also lists Five Benefits she believes you will experience: 1 – Increase Your World as You Know It, 2 - Know your own Personal History, 3 – Expand Your Sense of Being an American, 4 – Keep Your Family Memories and Traditions Alive and, 5 – Discover the Mystery of you – DNA.
Download or read book They Came in Ships written by John Philip Colletta and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on searching passenger ship lists and indexes, naturalization and immigration records, and genealogical Websites to find records of ancestors who came to the United States on ships.
Download or read book My Immigrant Ancestors written by Joel S. Koenig and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Immigrant Ancestors written by Frank D. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant Ancestors written by Frederick Adams Virkus and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Immigrant Ancestors and Allied Families written by Mary Laura Spark Watson and published by . This book was released on with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant Ancestors written by Frederick Adams Virkus and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant Ancestors written by Frederick Adams Virkus and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Immigrant Ancestors written by Susan Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogical history of the John A. Arnold family of Monticello, Minnesota. This is the 1st of 8 planned volumes about the immigrant families of the author's 8 great-grandparents. It includes over 40 historical documents, maps, newspaper clippings, and photos. It starts after John A. Arnold's immigration from Prussia to Wright County, Minnesota in the 1850's, and covers what the author has discovered so far about his life and death - including his marriage to Anna Hubertina Salden and the lives of their 6 children. This book is a must-read for all descendants of John A. Arnold.
Download or read book My Immigrant Ancestors Find a Land of Opportunity 1880 written by Kathleen Burris Carty and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Portion of My Immigrant Ancestors and Allied Families written by Mary Laura Spark Watson and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant ancestors a list of 2 500 immigrants to America before 1750 written by Frederick Adams Virkus and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant Ancestors written by Sara Tanke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of my immigrant ancestors from England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Wales
Download or read book Immigrant Ancestors of Marylanders written by Martha Reamy and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data abstracted from Maryland histories that name immigrant ancestors, and in most cases provide information on at least one generation in America. Many entries give family residence in the old country.
Download or read book The Wright Chamberlin Genealogy written by Eunice Miena Barber and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Wright (d.1663/1667) immigrated from England to Springfield, Massachusetts during or before 1639, and moved to Northampton, Massachusetts in 1655. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Florida and elsewhere.
Download or read book Immigrant Secrets written by John Francis Mancini and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many of their greatest generation compadres, my parents, Joseph and Sallyann, quickly headed from New York City to the suburbs in the 1950s shortly after they were married. They arrived in New Jersey, and began their own personal population explosion, having six kids-John, June, Joseph, Jennifer, Jeffrey, and Jeanne-within an eleven-year span. Yes, all Js. It was a typical story of life in the suburbs. Imagine the television show The Wonder Years set in New Jersey, and you can get the picture. On The Wonder Years, you always had a feeling there was some untold story concerning Kevin's father Jack and his father. Bit by bit over the years, the backstory is revealed. Kevin's father was born in 1927. He grew up during the Great Depression, served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War, and worked as a product distribution manager at NORCOM, a somewhat mysterious large military defense company. Later, he started his own business building and selling handcrafted furniture. In the last episode, it was revealed that he died of a heart attack in 1975. There are certain parallels. My father was born in 1925. He grew up during the Great Depression, served in the US Navy during WWII and worked as a business analyst at Union Carbide, a somewhat mysterious large chemical company. Later, he started his own business with a friend, but I have no idea what they did. In my father's last episode, he had a heart attack in New York City in 1987 shortly after officially retiring. There is one significant difference between Jack Arnold in the Wonder Years and my father. My father had no "backstory." My father never mentioned his family. Never. We only knew - or thought we knew - that his parents died in the 1930s. Unless you knew my father -- the consummate family man -- you will have no idea how weird this was. And therein are the seeds of my quest to unravel our family history mystery. In a pair of ship manifests, I discovered my father's parents, a pair of Italian immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in the early 1920s, intent on grabbing their share of the American dream. In the 1930 Census, I found a family of four - my grandparents, my father and his brother -- with a tenuous foothold on that dream, operating a small fruit stand in Manhattan. After that, I had mostly frustrating dead-ends -- until the release of the 1940 Census. My grandparents magically reappeared in the Census - but as "inmates" at the Rockland Insane Asylum, never to reemerge. And through my entire lifetime until my father's death, there was no mention that he had an extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins, all living within driving distance. What happened? Who were these people? How did their lives go so awry? And why all the secrecy? This is a story about my efforts to use genealogy to discover the truth about our family and a reflection on the impact of secrets on our lives. It is also the story of what it means to be an immigrant - and the impact that "otherness" and mental illness can have on the vulnerable. And lastly, it is my attempt to think through the "why" and "how" of my father, 34 years after his death.
Download or read book Immigrant Secrets written by John F. Mancini and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father never mentioned his Italian immigrant family. Never. We only knew - or thought we knew - that his parents died in the 1930s. Except they didn't. I spent decades working with records managers, archivists, and genealogists on the technologies used to preserve information. Despite this, I never spent any time looking at my own family history. The only thing my father ever said about his family was that his parents died in the 1930s. Once I began the search for my grandparents, I mostly ran into frustrating dead-ends - until the release of the 1940 Census. My grandparents magically appeared in the Census - but as "inmates" at the Rockland Insane Asylum - along with an extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins, all living within driving distance, but never mentioned.What happened? Who were these people? And why all the secrecy?The book is part mystery, part family history, part historical reconstruction. The story in the book of the search itself is a rather typical family history journey, albeit one that revealed things I never could have imagined about our family. The story in the book of my Italian grandparents is in fact a story. But it is, as they say in the movie industry, "based on a true story." As Christian columnist and New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans said in her 2018 book Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, "Origin stories are rarely straightforward history. Over the years, they morph into a colorful amalgam of truth and myth, nostalgia and cautionary tale."
