Researching Family History:

Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University.

Center for Jewish History – Genealogy Institute. Ellis Island Passenger Search Page
Find records of passengers who entered the United States via Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.

Familysearch.org
This site calls itself “the largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world”.

How to Write a Family History
This page is part of a site on how to write a family history.  It includes a list of possible questions a family historian could ask his or her relatives.

Judaism and Jewish resources. American Life Histories from the Library of Congress 
Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940.

Images of Ellis Island and immigration (1880-1920)
from the Collections of the Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress Memory Project - Immigration
Provides information about the immigration experiences of various groups that came to live in the the United States (Native American, African, German, Irish, Scandinavian, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Chinese, Puerto Rican/Cuban, Polish/Russian).  The site also has a cookbook of recipes from around the world, interviews with immigrants of today, and lesson plans for teachers.

The Minnesota Historical Society Family History Page. National Geographic Maps of the World. Pennsylvania Dutch Family History, Genealogy, and Cultural Life. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
from the University of Texas at Austin.

TEAMS Educational Resources
A web page for children to share their family stories about immigration.  Read other student’s stories or post your own story.

University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center.

Documents from the Letters from Rifka Manuscript in the Kerlan Collection (MF2534 F27):

Karen Hesse's Family Tree

Karen Hesse's Letter to Aunt Ethel

Note's on Karen Hesse's Family

Notes on the Characters in Letters from Rifka

Research on the Setting in Letters from Rifka

Notes About the Book

Historical Research for the Book

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