Welcome to Monterey Peninsula College at Genealogy Research Associates
IDENTIFYING SIMILAR NAMES & HOME TOWNS EFFECTIVELY SEARCHING RECORDSINTERPRETING THE PLACE NAMEImportant Record Sources for Finding the Homeland Twentieth Century ImmigrantsNaturalization and Other Federal RecordsNineteenth Century Immigrant ResearchMore Nineteenth Century SourcesNineteenth Century Research MethodsTracing Your Eighteenth Century Immigrant Ancestors 18th Century Immigrant Ancestor Clues from Probate Records Tactics for Using Foreign SourcesAdditional Records in the Foreign Country REVIEWING THE PUZZLEThe Purpose of a Project Report


A course that focuses on finding the birthplace of your immigrant ancestor starting with the records of the United States.


Prepared by Karen Clifford, AG

You may make a copy of this for your own use but please honor the copyright of  Genealogy Research Associates, Inc.

This publication includes images from CorelDRAW 9 protected by the copyright laws of the U.S., Canada and elsewhere. Used under license.

Personal Ancestral File (PAF), Ancestral File, Familysearch.org, Family History Library Catalog, and International Genealogy Index (IGI) are all trademarks or registered trademarks of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

AniMap is a registered trademark of GoldBug.com.