CELEBRATING FAMILY DAY – FREE ACCESS† TO ALL CANADIAN RECORDS AND GLOBAL PASSENGER LISTS

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Search for your family’s history.

Start with FREE access to passenger lists from around the world and ALL Canadian records to help build your family tree through February 15, 2016.

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Explore your family’s history with these categories.

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Tips for Success: Immigration Records on Ancestry

What you can discover on an immigration record:

The forms captured virtually all the information that was recorded on the more traditional passenger manifest, but the form is signed by the immigrant themselves.

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Personal Details
Name, Age, Occupation, Place of Birth, Origin and Religion.

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How much money they are carrying
This offers an idea of their
economic status.

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Object of travel
Find out whether they are planning to stay or just visiting.

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Where they are going
Find out their Canadian destination.