Could Your Ancestor Have CROSSED the US Border?
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
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0:00 Introduction
0:43 Earliest US Border Crossing Records
1:21 Online US Border Crossing Records - @myheritage @familysearch @AncestryUS @findmypast
1:39 US / Canada Border Crossing Record Sample
2:20 Sensitive Family Stories Uncovered in Border Crossing Records
3:06 US / Mexico Border Crossing Record Sample
3:51 Why Genealogists Search Border Crossing Records
4:18 Library and Archives Canada has Canadian / US Records
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I found lots of valuable information from border crossings.
Have you? Could you share some of your successes with me? www.familyhistoryfanatics.com/contact
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics , later. I saved hard copies of the info and added it to that person’s file. I liked the personal info, such as height etc. I’m still printing out my info. I’m one of those who likes hard copies. This way , I can print out unvalidated info and only add it to my tree if I can prove it.
Border crossing documents tipped me off to the existence of a hitherto-unknown-to-me brother of my great-grandfather. I hadn’t known about him previously because a) his baptismal record in Quebec has the wrong surname and b) he was adopted by a family in Malone NY as a teen (I think) and took their surname as his own. My ggf listed him as a contact with the original family name in 1910 and their sister listed him as a contact with his adopted surname in 1919. DNA matches and an 1871 Census of Canada record, among other records, confirmed the relationship.
Thanks, border crossing documents!
Wow. That's an amazing discovery! Thanks for sharing them with me.
I found my great grandmother's border crossing card, there is a picture of her and 3 of her children. It is the ONLY picture we have of her oldest child and the ONLY picture of her 3rd child who died at the age of 3. The 3rd child in the picture is of my grandfather. We have a picture from his childhood where he looks exactly the same and is even wearing the same jacket. Such an amazing find for my family research.
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My Dad's Family moved from the US to Canada to Farm in early 1903. I was always curious why he was born in the US in 1924.- I have his birth certificate in the US. Then last year I found a border crossing into the US just two months before he would have been born by his recently widowed grandmother who was moving back down to Wisconsin to live with her daughters family. So maybe they all went down to visit or to help her move. Yet I can't find any crossing for my dad's mother, who obviously would have had to cross into the US. Nor can I find their crossing back into Canada, Yet know they came back up fairly soon after he was born - documents and census records.
Thank you for this information. It's good to know when they started recording the border crossings. It will save me lots of time looking for an ancestor who may have crossed the borders before the country's started keeping records. Thank you for all you do. I am learning so much from both of you. 👍
So true. The dates of when records were kept are important to know in genealogy research.
Apparently my 3x great grandfather died in Regina Skatchewan in 1925 while visiting his son. I have no idea how long either of them were there and haven't found anything yet.
That's must be frustrating to not find anything. Be patient, something may turn up in the future.
I’ve found border crossing records very useful when doing descendancy research. I’ve also noticed in one family, trips back and forth across the border coincided with parents final year of life, as children came home to care for them at the end
Thanks for sharing your experience with the collection. It does make sense for crossings connected to major life events. For my professor, it was often summer vacation.
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Devon, thank you. My family crossed from the US to Canada in and around 1860. Are there any records anywhere for this time period? Were they allowed to cross anywhere back then without any documentation? They left Rome, New York and came to Toronto, Ontario. Ty
That's too early for the record keeping at the land border. I believe the border was very fluid at the time in terms of record keeping.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Thanks so much. I won't look for anything then!
Where do u look for these
The video explains that the US/Canadian border crossings are available on Ancestry, Findmypast, and MyHeritage. The Us/Mexico Border Crossings are available on Ancestry. For all the links, check out the blog post associated with the video www.familyhistoryfanatics.com/border-crossing-records