Posts about immigration records, emigration records, naturalization, permission to leave, passenger lists for genealogy research.
Today a look at a new (to me) collection: Holland-America Passenger Lists 1900-1974, digitized at the Rotterdam City Archive (Gemeentearchief te Rotterdam), Netherlands. This collection also includes departure records from New York. Archives of [...]
Today is the last day to protest USCIS fee hikes. Your voice counts. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) recently proposed a 492 percent increase in USCIS fee hikes to access historical records held [...]
Have you used newspaper shipping news for genealogy research? This is a new and welcome addition to my resources for immigration research. SLIG Class on Immigration Classes I've taken through the Salt Lake Institute [...]
Today's (long) post is about finding Prussian ancestors in Rawitsch. This trip to Poland is the sixth of eight ancestral trips to the villages of my great-grandparents. (Read Part Two of my visit to Rawitsch [...]
