2026-10-19   Finding the Town of Origin - 16 Ways: For ancestors born abroad, census records are often not available for tracing the town of origin. What other avenues are open to find the information you need? This interview from Lisa Louise Cooke illustrates 16 types of records that you can use to find clues that will lead you to towns of origin, such as ship manifests, alien registrations, county histories, military records and more. Learn more about researching U.S. immigration records in Goal D1 of the United States page.

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