how to find relative

If you carefully study your family tree, it is quite possible that in your family tree you will find relatives who more than a century ago made a trip to America in search of a better life and there continued their family line. It is possible that today your distant relatives live across the ocean, who have even kept a consonant surname with you.

Such cases in the genealogy of Ukrainian families are not unique. The rapid demographic growth of the second half of the XIX - the beginning of the XX cc. and accordingly the increasing land hunger pushed the population of Ukrainian lands from both Austrian and Russian Empires to the search for a better life abroad.

How do you find records of your relatives who at one time immigrated to the United States? Today, special online services for find people search - 2 who once sailed to America serve this purpose. Arriving in the New World was accompanied by a series of formal procedures that every emigrant had to go through before setting foot on the mainland. The point of arrival for most migrants from Europe was Ellis Island in New York. It is near Liberty Island, on which stands the famous statue of the same name. The majestic monument was one of the first objects that migrants saw from the deck of a ship as they sailed to the American shore.

Since 1892, Ellis Island had been the site of the federal government's immigration office. There, emigrants underwent weeks of quarantine, medical examinations, and registration, and only after passing all these necessary procedures could they reach the mainland. It is generally accepted that between 1892 and 1924 about 16 million people entered the United States through Ellis Island. One-third of them settled in New York City itself. Another 20 million people entered the United States through Ellis Island from 1892 to 1954. Ellis Island stopped receiving migrants in 1954, and now there is an Immigration Museum there.

Today, information on most of the legal migrants to America who came to New Land through Ellis Island is digitized and freely available.

We will analyze one of the most popular and, in our opinion, convenient search engines for migrants to the United States. This is the site of The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation.

On the main page of the site you can immediately begin your search by entering the desired last name and first name in Latin alphabet. You don't have to use the last name - the main thing is to enter it correctly.  To do it, try some combinations of vowels that are consonantal or have similar consonants.

The system prompts similar surnames by itself, but, for example, the surname Liseyko can be entered as Lyseyko, Leseyko, Lisejko and each time the system will give the data of new personalities, most of which, in fact, belonged to the same family.

In order to fully enjoy all the features of the site, it is better to register at once. Without registration you will not be able to view more detailed information about the persons you are interested in.After registering you can start a full-fledged search for ancestors in the resource base. Type in the desired last name on the main page, and the system will show you a list of people with the migrant's first and last name, year of arrival, place of former residence, and the name of the ship on which the person arrived in the United States. There are also opportunities on the website to get more detailed information about the person you are interested in. Special tabs are used for this purpose.

 

Under Passenger Record you can find detailed information about the person you are interested in. All information is in English:

• First name - first name
• Last name - full name
• Nationality - nationality, citizenship or citizenship.
• Last Place of Residence - where you live
• Date of Arrival - date of arrival to the United States
• Gender - Sex
• Marital Status - marital status
• Ship of Travel refers to the ship on which you arrived in the United States.
• Port of Departure refers to the port of departure
• Manifest Line Number: shows the number used to register as a passenger on the ship.

 

The Ship Information tab contains information about the ship on which the migrant arrived in the United States. Here you can see a photo of the ship, and a brief summary of the ship's specifications and history. As a rule, these were large ships that sailed between Europe and America, carrying hundreds of passengers on board.

Particularly interesting is the Ship Manifest tab - there you will find a scanned copy of the original document with a record of the arrival of the person you are interested in.

This is the set of basic options that you can use when looking for migrants in the United States. We hope the information was useful, and you will find some of your relatives, who at one time went abroad in search of a better life. If your search is difficult or at a dead end, our specialists can help you find your relatives, including those who once went abroad.