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Access Genealogy: A Free Genealogy Resource FamGen.net - A Free Place to Host Your Family Tree Online BillionGraves Blog Free Genealogy and Family History Online - The USGenWeb Project Ancestor Hunt - Free Genealogy Search Engines FamilySearch: US Migration Internal Value of Migration Research Mountains, forests, waterways, and the gaps between them channelled migration into predictable settlement patterns. Events like gold or land rushes, and Indian treaties also affected settlement. Understanding the transportation systems available to ancestors can help genealogists better guess their place of origin. Migration research may help you discover: a place of origin, previous hometown, or place where an ancestor settled biographical details such as what they experienced, or with whom they traveled on their journey clues for finding other records Types of U.S. Actual lists of travelers are unusual. Censuses, directories, land and property records, plat maps, tax records, and voting registers can sometimes be used to learn where new arrivals settled. Church records of some denominations may indicate a former residence of a family or a place to which they were moving. Migration Records for Selected States Bibliography Adams, James Truslow, editor-in-chief.

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