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16 April 2015

FREE access to Ancestry.com Immigration Collection (Today - 20 April)

Today through Sunday (16-20 April 2015) you can access the Ancestry.com Immigration Collection for FREE!

As the product of 20^th century immigrants, these are some of my favorite records?

Did this collection reveal something about your immigrant ancestors?

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17 February 2015

The Italian Americans Premieres TONIGHT on PBS

I finally caught up on reading my Sunday newspapers and learned that The Italian Americans is premiering on tonight (9pm Eastern).

The Italian Americans reveals how Italian immigrants challenged the notion of the American “melting pot” — chronicling four generations of Italian-American lives, from the massive late 19th Century wave of immigration to today. From the importance of the family over an individual’s personal aspirations, to their distinctive, circular migration patterns, to the specter of the Mafia that still plagues Italian Americans today, this series peels away myths and stereotypes to reveal a world uniquely Italian and uniquely American.

Check out the preview video.

I personally do not have Italian heritage and I know many who do!

What’s your reaction to the program? Do you see your family in this documentary? How is your family different?

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04 July 2013

Liberty Island Re-opens Today -- a special place for so many genealogists with emigrant ancestors!

Photo of "The Lady" taken mid 1980s
Copyright Diane L Richard

Liberty Island ... a special place to many of us who have emigrant ancestors. For many, the first time our ancestors stepped foot in the US was on Ellis Island just after they saw The Statue of Liberty as they entered the harbor. She is significant to the history of many.

She is also wonderful to visit ...

For my own ancestors, a few came through NY and more came through Boston. What about in your family?

Did your ancestors talk about when they arrived?

If they arrived in NY, did they mention The Statue of Liberty?

Have you visited The Statue of Liberty? What did you think?

04 July 2012

National Archives exhibit shows prejudices faced by immigrants over the years

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With many of our ancestors emigrants, whether as the country was forming or as the immigration wave of the early 1900s hit, we have a shared fascination with learning what life was like for emigrants and also in the trials and tribulations of leaving their birth country. It took my great grandfather at least 3 attempts to be able to legally emigrate and his future wife’s family all came over one-at-a-time.

An article recently published in the Washington Post, “National Archives Exhibit shows prejudices faced by immigrants over the years,” discusses some of the challenges faced by the emigrants with regards to be allowed to emigrate.

... in the National Archives’ new exhibit on the history of the travails of immigration, which opened Friday in the archives’ main building in downtown Washington.

Entitled “Attachments: Faces and Stories From America’s Gates,” it is a look at the difficulties and prejudices faced by immigrants down through the years, and the harrowing roads some traveled to reach America.

Told with documents, letters and affidavits, the exhibit’s power is in its black-and-white photographs — many blown up to huge size — of people.

Read the full article.

Did your emigrant ancestor face challenges in their efforts to emigrate to the US? If so, please share their story!

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