Archive for July, 2005

More Than Passenger Lists: The Other Records of Ellis Island

By jutley • Jul 1st, 2005 • Category: Features

Read an article or attend a lecture on “the immigrant experience” and you’re almost certain to hear about immigrants who were detained or who went through a board of special inquiry upon arrival in the United States.


Family History 101: Old School vs. New School

By jutley • Jul 1st, 2005 • Category: Features

Two women—Marilyn Carlson and Valerie Holladay—were searching for an ancestor named Mary Ann. Marilyn, who took on the project for a client in the early 1980s, conducted her search the “Old School” way without the benefit of computers and indexes. Valerie, a novice genealogist, started her search in 2004 and took the “New School” approach, conducting her search electronically.


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