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Immigrant Ancestors
A Brief Research Guide
Michael HaitLaurel, Maryland
8 March 2010
"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!"
When did they arrive?
Philip Feulner
Check the federal census1930:
Place of birthYear of immigrationNaturalized?
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.
Check the federal census1920:
Place of birthYear of immigrationYear 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.
Check the federal census1910:
Place of birthYear of immigrationNaturalized?
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.
Check the federal census1900:
Place of birthYear of immigrationNaturalized?
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.
Compile your information
Census Year
Place of Birth
Year of Immigra-
tion
Natural-ized?
1930 Germany 1871 Yes
1920Bavaria,
Ger. Unknown Unknown
1910 Germany 1870 Papers1900 Germany 1871 --
Passenger Lists can be found…
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www.castlegarden.org
Passenger Lists can be found…
www.ellisisland.org
North German Ship CarlDeparted Port of Bremen
Arrived Port of New York31 December 1870
Compare your information
Census Year
Place of Birth
Year of Immigra-
tion
Natural-ized?
1930 Germany 1871 Yes
1920Bavaria,
Ger. Unknown Unknown
1910 Germany 1870 Papers1900 Germany 1871 --
Passenger list Prussia
30 Dec 1870 --
Finding a Picture of the Shiphttp://stevemorse.org/ellis/pictures.html
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.
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