So Maybe Your Immigrant Ancestors Didn't Land in New York?

Many people researching their ancestors' arrival in the United States first think of the Port of New York/Ellis Island as their likely point of immigration. But as Crista Cowen, the Barefoot Genealogist at Ancestry, explains in this video, there were other places you can look:

But it could have been Baltimore, Galveston, or San Francisco, depending on the time frame.

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