Passenger and Immigration

This Zoom event is presented by the Palm Springs Genealogical Society with guest speaker Curt Witcher. This FREE program will be from 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. on Zoom.

This presentation challenges one to view an ancestor’s travel to this continent as a three-step process -- leaving, arriving, and settling down -- with each of these steps containing the possibility of record generation.  Sample documents are viewed and suggestions provided on how to access immigration related data.

Curt Witcher is the Director of Special Collections at the Allen County Public Library, managing the widely acclaimed Genealogy Center as well as the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection of Abraham Lincoln related research materials and the institution’s Fine Books Collection. He is a former president of both the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society, and the founding president of the Indiana Genealogical Society.

For more information and the Zoom Meeting Link, please email President Sondra Lucas at sunnysondra@gmail.com

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