Immigrant Ancestors Research Courses

The American story is one of immigrants: people who left home to find a better life for themselves and their families. Tracking down these uprooted people can trip you up, but our immigration research classes will help you trace your roots.

Choose from the courses listed below to discover how to trace your immigrant ancestors.

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Power Course: Coming to America

Our Power Courses are designed to give you an intense dose of learning on one topic. You’ll have one week to go through about two hours worth of course materials. In the time it takes to watch a movie, you’ll give your research skills a huge boost, and come away with new tools and techniques that you can use immediately to find more ancestors. In this course, you’ll learn all about how to trace your immigrant ancestors, from their departure from the old country to … Learn More →

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Immigration Master Class: How to Find Immigrants, Ancestral Villages and Foreign Records

Want to kick-start your research of your immigrant ancestors? The Immigration Master Class is an eight-week intensive of the following classes, giving you three courses for the price of two. Instructor and genealogy expert Lisa A. Alzo will take you on a journey to trace the immigrants in your family back to their ancestral villages and help you pinpoint important US records to locate. Learn more Learn More →

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Research in Foreign Records: How to Find Your Family Across the Pond

After you’ve identified the immigrant in your family tree and pinpointed the place your family came from, you’re ready to begin exploring resources in the country. The third course in our immigrant research series walks you through the steps to successfully cross the pond and find your family in foreign records. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN How to set yourself up for success and identify available records Ways to access records from countries all over the world—without traveling there Tips for writing to overseas archives and record … Learn More →

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Finding Your Ancestral Village: Strategies and Tools to Pinpoint Your Family’s Place of Origin

Most genealogists hope to “cross the pond” as quickly as possible—but to do that, you need to know the name of the town or village where your ancestor lived. This course will teach you how identify your ancestor’s place of origin, show you the key tools you need to do so and give you an overview of the factors that likely influenced an immigrant’s decision to leave home. Each of the four lessons includes an assignment designed to help you progress in tracking the ancestral … Learn More →

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Tracing Immigrants: How to Research Your Family’s American Arrivals

Many people get interested in genealogy because they want to learn more about where their family came from—specifically, to find out which ancestors came over from the “old country” and when. This course will teach you how to identify an immigrant ancestor in your family tree. You’ll learn how to pinpoint when and where he or she left and locate records documenting his or her immigration. Each of the four lessons includes an assignment designed to help you progress in your research of an immigrant … Learn More →