Except for Native Americans, We Are All of Immigrant Stock!

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36. A lot of the info is searchable on line now, but you need to know a few basics

If you know (or can guess) what year they came here, and what port they came through you can search the ship's passenger lists. That info is freely available, but time-consuming if you can't pin down names and dates.

There are a lot a searchable records in the LDS archive - that's the Latter Day Saints, and we mostly call them the Mormons. The Mormons were obsessed with genealogy history because of their polygamy rules. They would end up marrying distant cousins unless they researched their ancestry.

But anyway the LDS records can be searched by anyone, you don't have to be a Mormon believer.