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The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at
Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU) is a Private education, private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is the flagship university of the Church Educational System sponsore ...
, uses emigration registers and other documents to locate information about the birthplaces of
immigrant Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents. Commuters, tourists, and other short- ...
s to the United States and other countries. Such information may not be found in the port registers or naturalization documents in the destination countries. Volunteers working with scholars and researchers at Brigham Young University have created a database of millions of immigrants based on these
emigration Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...
registers. The Immigrant Ancestors Project focuses on emigrants from England, Ireland, Spain, Germany, France, and Italy.


Process

Each spring and summer, family history majors from Brigham Young University travel as interns to Europe to research at local and national libraries and archives. Directed and supervised by professors and IAP section advisors, the interns identify and gather digital images of emigration records that are not easily accessible to researchers, but that are vital to determining an ancestor's birth and origins. These images are then uploaded onto the IAP software. Volunteers from around the world can then download a batch to their PCs and extract the information from the documents.


See also

* BYU Family History Library *
FamilySearch FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software. It is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is part of the Church's Family History Department (FHD). The Fami ...
* Family History Library *
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Restorationism, restorationist Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, denomination and the ...


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External links

* Brigham Young University Genealogy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints {{LDS-stub