After 1906, immigration manifests offer a wealth of information, but what do you do if your family came over prior to that time? And how did they get from New York to the central United States? This presentation explores the immigration period from the early 1890s through 1906, a period which begins to offer useful information for a genealogical search. Using a case approach, we will look at derivative naturalization documents, trace contacts they were going to through the NY vital records and follow immigrants who found their route through Canada. Using paired surnames we will locate a birth record, join cousins on an ocean voyage to NY, find parents, their siblings and children and follow along on a journey to the Midwest. We will explore cases with name changes and variable spellings, work back from other documents, and resolve conflicting data.

About the Speaker
Susan Weinberg is an artist, author, professional genealogist  and frequent speaker on genealogy topics. Her background bridges both creative and analytic work, both skills she draws on in genealogy. . Her creative work often involves storytelling and frequently explores family history themes. Having come out of a long career in finance, she often uses spreadsheets as an analytic tool in her genealogy research. 

Susan is active in organizations within the world of Jewish genealogy, as president of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS), immediate past president of the Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society (MNJGS),  vice president of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest(JHSUM) and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG).

Susan developed the Jewish Identity and Legacy Project, an oral history project with elders, then authored the book We Spoke Jewish: A Legacy in Stories that includes oral history, artwork, and history on three groups of Jewish immigrants who spanned the 1900s. Susan has created and manages websites for JewishGen on the former Jewish communities of several of her ancestral towns. She writes frequently for publications on genealogy topics and does genealogy research for clients around the world.