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There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records available on Ancestry.com and more. Check out our list of ways you ...

For Black Americans searching for their family history, museums and libraries can help with genealogical research. One Boston woman hit the road to trace her family roots in person.