The likelihood of tracing individuals and families successfully is greatly enhanced if the work is begun by making every effort to learn everything possible about the immigrant or family using U.S. record sources. An immediate concern should be to learn the full name of the immigrant and the names of as many other family members as possible. It is sometimes necessary to trace the lives of all the person's children in order to obtain the critical clues that will tell exactly where the immigrant was born.
Biographical Information
To clearly identify an immigrant in records of the country from which the person came, you must know...
To clearly identify an immigrant in records of the country from which the person came, you must know...