Als er een syllabus of een serie dia’s is, kunt u die hieronder downloaden. Als u ter plaatse aanwezig bent, kunt u deze bijeenkomst op de website van het fysieke evenement bekijken.
Je video begint over:
vrijdag 6 maart 2026 om 15:00 (GMT+0)
Discovering Your Immigrant’s Origins: Digging Deeper
Learn to find your ancestor’s foreign origins in some lesser-used record sets – and in doing so, help contextualize their life in the United States.
Voorgestelde content
Finding Your Ancestor’s Origin Story: Strategies for U.S. Immigration Research 2024
Alyssa Gamble Martinez
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!
