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    Finding My Emigrated Relatives in the US

    I'm extremely keen on this, I wish to find the relatives in the US of old relatives to my family that immigrated. But I don't know where to turn.
    We know names, we know where they went (Chigago), but we don't know where to start looking for them or who to turn to about it.

    We're currently reading the papers that have all their names, we even have some adresses.

    So any tips, hints or helpful people willing to help me on this endeavour would be great!

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    how long ago they emigrated matters
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    I have never heard of it being used for this particular purpose but I bet it would.

    http://www.ancestry.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamdwelf View Post
    how long ago they emigrated matters
    1886 is the year they went.

    There wouldn't happen to be anyone around here from the Chicago area?

    We have the name of a few streets.
    55.50 School Street, Chicago

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    I would start with Google and Facebook

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noomz View Post
    1886 is the year they went.

    There wouldn't happen to be anyone around here from the Chicago area?

    We have the name of a few streets.
    55.50 School Street, Chicago
    Is that their current address, or address from when they emigrated because if there were in chicago 125 years ago, They most likely wont be now.
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    And Chicago 125 years ago wasn't a sprawling metropolis. That street may not even exist anymore.

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    Find Chicago census records

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamdwelf View Post
    Is that their current address, or address from when they emigrated because if there were in chicago 125 years ago, They most likely wont be now.
    Yeah we figured as much.

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    I agree with some above, go for census data and ancestery.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raidenx View Post
    Find Chicago census records
    That's what I was thinking as well, but I don't know where I could find them.

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    Census.gov
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elapsed View Post
    I agree with some above, go for census data and ancestery.com
    Ancestry.com is a payed service though. I'll try their trial.

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    I wish you all the best on your search good luck hope you don't have deep roots

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