Leah Smith
11 November 2015
Dear Myrtle's Tracing Immigrant Origins Study Group
Show an example of an emigration document.
I spent a great deal of time looking at examples of documents and trying to find one that related to my family or hometown research (although that was not a requirement.) I never did find just the right thing, but I did learn a great deal about what types of documents were in this category, and where I might find them if available.
I decided to show this US Passport Application of Paul Crosby Chamberlain, born 18 December 1883, New York, NY, USA, son of a former South Carolina Governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain, and Alice Cornelia Ingersoll. Paul was a journalist who appeared to have been staying in London. A US citizen, he needed permission to travel to Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, and Turkey, probably in connection with this work, as this was just prior to the Balkan War of 1912 -1913. To my knowledge, Paul never returned to the United States to live. He served with the British Royal Field Artillery during World War I, and became a British Citizen after that service. He and his wife were killed in December 1940 during a bombing raid in London.
Passport Application of Paul C. Chamberlain on Ancestry.com
11 November 2015
Dear Myrtle's Tracing Immigrant Origins Study Group
Show an example of an emigration document.
I spent a great deal of time looking at examples of documents and trying to find one that related to my family or hometown research (although that was not a requirement.) I never did find just the right thing, but I did learn a great deal about what types of documents were in this category, and where I might find them if available.
I decided to show this US Passport Application of Paul Crosby Chamberlain, born 18 December 1883, New York, NY, USA, son of a former South Carolina Governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain, and Alice Cornelia Ingersoll. Paul was a journalist who appeared to have been staying in London. A US citizen, he needed permission to travel to Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, and Turkey, probably in connection with this work, as this was just prior to the Balkan War of 1912 -1913. To my knowledge, Paul never returned to the United States to live. He served with the British Royal Field Artillery during World War I, and became a British Citizen after that service. He and his wife were killed in December 1940 during a bombing raid in London.
Passport Application of Paul C. Chamberlain on Ancestry.com
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| Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007: Accessed 11 November 2015; Application for Paul C. Chamberlain, American Embassy at London, 15 September 1911. |
