The German Immigrant Ancestors Project at BYU

The German Immigrant Ancestors Project began in 1996 under the direction of the esteemed Dr. Raymond S. Wright III. Dr. Wright is the director of the world's largest family history library-the Salt Lake City Family History Library. He holds a PHD in European history and is an accredited genealogist from ICAPGEN with an emphasis in German research.

The greatest reason for the importance of the German IAP Project is that American arrival records often do not record the ports of departure or places of origin for those immigrating to America. Our project will help those searching for their immigrant ancestors to find their places of birth and residence.

The goals of the German IAP Project consist of finding original, undocumented immigration records and extracting the vital information from these records to place them in our growing database of immigrants. It is our hope that people around the world will be able to come to our website for free and find their immigrating ancestors.

The extraction process for the project includes the scanning of the original immigration records into digitalized images that are placed in our extraction software. Volunteers world wide come to our website and sign up to extract the vital information which will include the above mentioned dates of birth, places of origin, and ports of departure.

If you are interested in volunteering for the German IAP Project, you can sign up at our website: http://immigrants.byu.edu <http://immigrants.byu.edu/>. If you have questions or comments concerning this information or anything regarding the project, you can email the student supervisor, Seth Kohrman, and the following address, IAP-German@byu.edu <mailto:IAP-German@byu.edu>.

The project will proceed in other languages also, if you have interest or expertise in those areas.

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