Immigration and Naturalization Records

[@charlottekerns5633]

Margaret's comment about the British citizens coming to America via Canada is true for one branch of my family. They were members of a workhouse in Blytheburgh/Bulcamp. I have a list of 'inmates' of the workhouse requesting passage from the church to emigrate from there to British America. My great great grandfather, his wife and their baby daughter were on that list. I am aware that there are steamship records in Canada in the from 1820 to 1836 along the St. Lawrence River. The one that would have my ancestor and his family is 1836 and, of course, is the only one that isn't digitised so I don't know where in Canada they landed and took a steamship from. They ended up in a place called Louisville Landing, St. Lawrence County, NY and had 8 additional children. On his obituary he is listed as a "miller".

[@chris_troiano]

Passport applications are such great resources for ancestors who have been naturalized, I found a lot of narrative information to help piece together a story of their lives.

[@GenealogyTV]

They are great, when you can find them. Congratulations on your passport application find.

[@patricianazareth7351]

So much excellent information is shared in this video! Must see for all who are researching..

[@GenealogyTV]

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[@cindyjugglegoddess7821]

Thank you for sharing the expertise you have and that your guests offer. I have followed you before, and was happily reminded about your channel when you presented recently at roots tech 2022. I have ancestors I am currently researching who were born in Newfoundland Canada and appear on the 1880 US census in San Francisco California, which is where my family is from. Absolutely wonderful to learn that I can stop searching for the immigration record of their border crossing, as your expert has informed me that those records didn’t begin until 1895. So much to learn and thank you again for spreading the knowledge 🙏🏻 Really enjoy your approach and wishing you supersonic success with your KZbin channel 🎉

[@GenealogyTV]

Thank you Cindy. It is growing fast... and I'm having fun with it. Thanks for the kind words.

[@suzannechalifoux8587]

Wow! So much information in this video. Thank you so much!

[@GenealogyTV]

You are so welcome!

[@pegpowell2237]

Great interview, lots of good info that every genealogist needs.

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks Peg and thanks for becoming a channel member.

[@karenosborne219]

I learned that I need to do a maternal dna to find my grandmothers mother in Slovakia Thank you for your knowledge

[@GenealogyTV]

Wonderful. Thanks for watching.

[@dianad.5312]

Thank you for the search tips to use on Family Search, it can be overwhelming without tips on how to narrow the search

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@1SassyCrafter]

I have every link you provided in the notes now open in tabs and can't wait to dig in! My great grandfather came over in 1913 from Italy on the Canada (I found his Naturalization Papers). You guessed it, I'm heading over to see the ship and then to watch the other video for Italy ;) TFS~Linda :)

[@GenealogyTV]

Love your comment Linda. Check out The History Guy. He does these little mini documentaries about the various ships. He might’ve done one on the Canada.

[@1SassyCrafter]

Genealogy TV thanks, Connie! Will do 😊

[@1SassyCrafter]

@@GenealogyTV well, I went and searched and fell down the rabbit hole of so many other videos! LOL I didn't see a video about the ship Canada, but found videos about the NYC Blackout of 1977, the Gambino Family, Edgar Allen Poe, and some others lol Thanks, I'll be going back ~Linda :)

[@hunterhagmaier]

@@1SassyCrafter Italian ancestry is so difficult. In my town where my ancestors were from in Sicily the records do not go back far. Do you have any specific links or websites you like to use?

[@GenealogyTV]

Look at MyHeritage and FindMYpast to see if they have anything.

[@59kuphoff]

Thank you so much for this information! Because of what I have learned i was able to find my 3X great grandmother whom I have been searching for- for months. Woo hoo!!

[@GenealogyTV]

Oh happy dance!

[@michaelstarnes2297]

Great video, working on my second UCIS request right now!

[@GenealogyTV]

Best of luck!

[@johnp6260]

Novice genealogist here. Thanks so much for another great informative video. Your videos have been most helpful. I must start research logs and notes as well as better organize my digital files. I had to stop a few times while reviewing the maternal side to ask myself why is that person there and how did I know to place them there. Then having to back track to reconfirm it is correct.

[@edgewaterz]

I have a naturalized certificate number for Milwaukee Circuit court from 1892 but I can't find it in and Ancestry or FamilySearch collections. I've looked in every catalog available online. At a loss where to look.

[@GenealogyTV]

Try the national archives nara.gov

[@aliciawilliams7994]

I am researching my husband's great grandfather. As far as we know he might have come into NY then possibly recruited directly into the Navy for the Civil War Jan 1865. I was told that if they served like he did he did NOT have to Apply for Naturalization. Which means I won't have that really important document. Is this true? Can you do a video on this? Or do you have one?

[@GenealogyTV]

I don’t have a video specific to this. I have to give this some thought.

[@michaelmason2128]

I was told my great grandparents died on the way from Italy. How do you find out this info.

[@GenealogyTV]

You might find it in the passenger records if you are lucky. If you find the passenger records for the ship they came in on, sometimes in the front matter of the roll there is an accounting of how many people came, how many died, etc.

[@Tyler-zo6xe]

In my research, I have a hole for my ancestor who was born in Wendron, Cornwall, England. She was on the 1881 Census locally. She showed up marrying my 2nd great grandfather in Kansas in 1883. She states on several censuses She arrived in 1881. It also shows she was naturalized. I can't locate her arrival or ship yet. I was looking for first papers but when I called the historical society, the lady reminded me that women didn't do that then. They took on husband's nationality. I was just thinking about immigrants. So were wives automatically naturalized when they married American husbands?

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes. So you might not find naturalization papers for her. On the flip side, there was a time when U.S. women lost their citizenship if they married an non-U.S. immigrant.

[@Tyler-zo6xe]

@Genealogy TV thank you. Since that takes away my immigration clue source, have you done any other videos on how to find her entry? I've been trying for Canadian records, but can see only arrivals in 1881 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, putting that idea of arrivals in Montreal as not totally accurate. Anyway, I've enjoyed your videos, and they've been helpful in my research. Keep doing a great job.

[@Tyler-zo6xe]

I broke through this brick wall when I found a comment in her obituary saying she came to America with her Aunt and her family. And with some further research I found her aunt and uncle bought the property adjacent to the property of the bachelor who would become her husband and my 2nd great grandfather. I also found their entry and she was right there on that list in New York in May of 1881. I also discovered this aunt and uncle arrived even earlier and made a home in California for 10 years before returning to England again for 5 years before finally returning to America with my 2nd great grandmother.

[@Tyler-zo6xe]

I might add the ship was called the S.S. Arizona departing from Queenstown, Ireland and Liverpool, England. It arrived 2 May 1881 in New York.

[@milagrosfonseca7407]

My ancestors came from Portugal in the late 1700's but I don't have any information about when they came or who came with them. If they came to Ellis Island or any port. Joseph Fonseca born 1738. Supposing he married his wife in Puerto Rico named Antonia Ramos in Toa Alta, PR. I don't have anything on her. Also records are so badly kept in Puerto Rico, and many of them accidently destroyed without copying them. without

[@GenealogyTV]

I understand. I do know Ancestry has some records. With all the hurricanes down there, I'm surprised anything survives.

[@no1975]

Exactly you can't read them have to keep enlarging it

[@charlotteruse158]

Don't you have to be a citizen to get a United States passport?

[@GenealogyTV]

To have a U.S. passport, you need to be a U.S. citizen by birth or naturalization or be a qualifying U.S. national. (per Google)

[@kamilataflinska1207]

I dont know my mother's where abouts I cam from poland

[@GenealogyTV]

Check out this video I did about Polish research. How to Research Your Polish Ancestors kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2WppImHe9p8rZI