When searching for your ancestors, you can only go back a few generations until you run into the immigration question. All of our ancestors, unless we are Native American, came from across the ocean, whether across the Atlantic or around the Cape of Good Hope and up to the Pacific coast. Many people came in through Ellis Island, during the years o...

There are many, if not most Americans here today, whose family members were immigrants at one point and were naturalized citizens, so tracing the roots of the family isn’t always as straightforward as we might wish it could be. Finding the date of naturalization isn’t all that difficult if you know where, and how to accomplish it. Find...

For a very long time among many different cultures, in particular the oral history was the only way of remembering one’s lineage and the important events of a group of people.  Even now, there are parts of each person’s history that no one but he or she knows. Unless someone asks and then considers it a duty of theirs and records the informat...