Short 20-minute presentation delivered at 8 March 2010 meeting of the Laurel [Maryland] Historical Society Genealogy Group. Basic information on locating records on your immigrant ancestors.

1. YourImmigrant AncestorsA Brief Research Guide Michael Hait Laurel, Maryland 8 March 2010

2. "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

3. "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

4. When did they arrive?

5. Philip Feulner

6. Check the federal census 1930: Place of birth Year of immigration Naturalized? SOURCE: 1930 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, ED 4-6-15, SD 5, sheet 6A, stamped page 170, dwelling 147, family 149, Phillip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1643.

7. Check the federal census 1920: Place of birth Year of immigration Year of naturalization SOURCE: 1920 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, 2nd Election Dist., ED 110, SD 10, sheet 4A, stamped page 170, dwelling 95, family 97, Phillip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1261.

8. Check the federal census 1910: Place of birth Year of immigration Naturalized? SOURCE: 1910 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, ED 106, SD 9, sheet 4A, stamped page 167, dwelling 84, family 84, Phillip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1076.

9. Check the federal census 1900: Place of birth Year of immigration Naturalized? SOURCE: 1900 U. S. Census, Saratoga Co., New York, population schedule, Greenfield Town, ED 114, SD 7, sheet 18B, dwelling 448, family 461, Philip Feulner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Mar 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1158.

10. Compile your information

11. Passenger Lists can be found…

12. Passenger Lists can be found…

13. Passenger Lists can be found… www.castlegarden.org

14. Passenger Lists can be found… www.ellisisland.org

15. North German Ship Carl Departed Port of Bremen Arrived Port of New York 31 December 1870

16. Compare your information

17. Finding a Picture of the Ship http://stevemorse.org/ellis/pictures.html

18. Finding a Picture of the Ship Silk embroidery, by Thomas Willes, New York, undated (but after 1865). Sammlung Havighorst/Pawlik, Staatsarchiv Bremen, 10 B Bildsammlung. Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segel-schiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 234.

19. Naturalization

20. Naturalization records Before 1906, any courthouse would do…

21. Naturalization records Since 1906, only federal courthouses…