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Tuʻapulelulu 5 Maʻasi 2026, 4:30 PM (GMT+0)
Immigrant Experiences: How to Use Community Context to Transform Family Stories
The stories of our ancestors who left home to start over in a new city or country comprise much more than ship manifests and census reports. Using examples from Dutch, German, and Southern migration to the U.S. Great Lakes region, learn how to discover and understand the cultural and local context of the communities your ancestors helped build, and how to narrate stories with a depth of historical perspective and emotional connection.
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Stories from Ellis Island: Exploring the Immigrant Journey Through Manifests
While they may look straightforward, passenger manifests include a bounty of information about each traveler's journey to America, as well as their lives before and after arrival.In this class, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation’s Family History Center experts shed light on some of the more curious pieces of information included on arrival manifests:- Understand why certain names are crossed out and why some immigrants were detained.- Learn how stowaways were represented on manifests.- Discover what happened when babies were born at sea and steps taken when tragedy struck, and passengers died on the long voyage to the United States.- Finally be convinced that names were not changed at Ellis Island!
Finding Your Ancestor’s Origin Story: Strategies for U.S. Immigration Research 2024
Alyssa Gamble Martinez