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Your Immigrant Ancestors A Brief Research Guide Michael Hait Laurel, Maryland 8 March 2010
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Immigrant Ancestors

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Short 20-minute presentation delivered at 8 March 2010 meeting of the Laurel [Maryland] Historical Society Genealogy Group. Basic information on locating records on your immigrant ancestors.
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Page 1: Immigrant Ancestors

Your

Immigrant Ancestors

A Brief Research Guide

Michael HaitLaurel, Maryland

8 March 2010

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"Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe

free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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When did they arrive?

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Philip Feulner

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Check the federal census1930:

Place of birthYear of immigrationNaturalized?

SOURCE: 1930 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, ED 4-6-15, SD 5, sheet 6A, stamped page 170, dwelling 147, family 149, Phillip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1643.

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Check the federal census1920:

Place of birthYear of immigrationYear of naturalization

SOURCE: 1920 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, 2nd Election Dist., ED 110, SD 10, sheet 4A, stamped page 170, dwelling 95, family 97, Phillip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1261.

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Check the federal census1910:

Place of birthYear of immigrationNaturalized?

SOURCE: 1910 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, ED 106, SD 9, sheet 4A, stamped page 167, dwelling 84, family 84, Phillip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1076.

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Check the federal census1900:

Place of birthYear of immigrationNaturalized?

SOURCE: 1900 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, ED 114, SD 7, sheet 18B, dwelling 448, family 461, Philip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1158.

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Compile your information

Census Year

Place of Birth

Year of Immigra-

tion

Natural-ized?

1930 Germany 1871 Yes

1920Bavaria,

Ger. Unknown Unknown

1910 Germany 1870 Papers1900 Germany 1871 --

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Passenger Lists can be found…

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Passenger Lists can be found…

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Passenger Lists can be found…

www.castlegarden.org

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Passenger Lists can be found…

www.ellisisland.org

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North German Ship CarlDeparted Port of Bremen

Arrived Port of New York31 December 1870

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Compare your information

Census Year

Place of Birth

Year of Immigra-

tion

Natural-ized?

1930 Germany 1871 Yes

1920Bavaria,

Ger. Unknown Unknown

1910 Germany 1870 Papers1900 Germany 1871 --

Passenger list Prussia

30 Dec 1870 --

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Finding a Picture of the Shiphttp://stevemorse.org/ellis/pictures.html

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Finding a Picture of the Ship

Silk embroidery, by Thomas Willes, New York, undated (but after 1865). Sammlung Havighorst/Pawlik, Staatsarchiv Bremen, 10 B Bildsammlung. Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segel-schiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893 , Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 234.

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Naturalization

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Naturalization records

Before 1906, any courthouse would do…

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Naturalization records

Since 1906, only federal courthouses…