Barbara,
You didn't state your reasons for searching for a US ancestor. I have
had sucess and failures with my immigrants. I sucessfully found
naturalization papers for a number of them, but found some only
contained the date, and the country they came from; two listed the
country and county they came from, and the others only dates of arrival
and ship (often wrong since time and memory had passed.
My greatest success was tracking them through the census to discover
the name of the wife had changed over the years. I then had a $10
marriage record search done over a 6 year period in the nearest
courthouse to him. Bingo. I found his name and both his parents names
and his birthplace.
Worth doing if this is the information you were after. Otherwise it
might not be worth the time.
Mitzi
From: B1oatley(a)aol.com
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:06:59 EDT
To: MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [Mon] re immigration overseas
Hello,
Is there anyone on the list please, that could give me advice on
finding a
record of passage for an Ancester who left Blackwood Monmouthshire
Wales to
live in Pennsylvannia USA, possibly 1881 was the year that he went
overseas.
Woulsd appreciate any feedback
Regards Barbara.
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