The friends of the Traverse Area District Library have purchased a subscription to Ancestry.com. With this subscription, anyone can walk in an look up their family with access to the full range of services that Ancestry provides. This means that any of you can do what I did yesterday:
- Look at Grampa Gerbstadts registry at Ellis Island
- Look at the vessel which brought Grampa to the States
- Look at Grampa's naturalization tag registered with Wayne County MI
- Find addresses for the Gerbstadts remaining in Wayne County MI
- Look at his Uncle Emil's requests for a passport; one request was to return to Germany in 1922 in which he lists his father as deceased
- See the Census records for Gerbstadts living in Wayne County in 1900, 1930
- Gain access to ship manifests and immigration records of trans-Atlantic crossings
- be disappointed that Gramma Ada shows up NOWHERE in these records
Ancestry also has a feature that puts the information that you plug into the software into an easy to read, genealogically correct format. Between the translating and the web searches, compiling the information will take just a little while longer. In the meantime there is the column to the right.
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