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Offline johnnyboy

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U.S immigration records free on Ancestry through Monday, Sept. 6
« on: Friday 03 September 10 16:15 BST (UK) »
According to an item in Thursday's New York Times, there is free access to all U.S. immigration records on Ancestry.com through Monday, Sept. 6. You will have to register for an account, though, to conduct searches.

The Times article--about oral histories from Ellis Island being added to Ancestry's collection--is here if you want to read: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/arts/02arts-ELLISISLANDO_BRF.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22ancestry.com%22&st=cse

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ENGLAND (all Yorkshire but one)
SLATER: Ovenden, Halifax, and Massachusetts
DOBSON, LONGBOTTOM: Thornton (Bradford)
DRURY: Darton, Halifax, and Massachusetts
NEVIL(LE): Wigan (Lancs.), Darton
MEGSON: Dewsbury, Ossett
GARSIDE: Woolley, West Bretton

SCOTLAND
ROBERT HENDRY: b. 1856, Who-knows-where-shire, Scotland; 1882 to US
DEMPSTER, HOUSTON: Lesmahagow, Glasgow, and Massachusetts
GALBRAITH, MEIKLE: Kirkmichael, Ayr.; Hamilton, Glasgow, and Massachusetts

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Re: U.S immigration records free on Ancestry through Monday, Sept. 6
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 04 September 10 21:34 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the heads up johnnyboy.
Bloomfield, Knights, Whitmore, Warner (Suffolk)
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