Ancestry.com is offering free access to its "Immigration and Travel Collection" through September 5th. I recommend searching for people from every branch in your tree, regardless of when you think they immigrated to the United States. Your ancestors may have taken a cruise to Bermuda or visited relatives (surprise!) in Poland and needed a passport. Applications for passports may include a photograph, such as the one below.
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| Who wouldn't love to find this picture of their ancestors? |
The application may have included additional documents explaining the purpose of the trip.
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| This supplemental letter to this family's application explains why they moved to Belgium, as well as a parent's name. |
Other applications may provide dates and locations of births, deaths, marriages, and residences, where you can then look for additional records.
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These few sentences provide a date and place of birth, immigration date, residence,
and date and location of citizenship documents. |
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