Resources

Students drew from a range of personal, print, visual, and digital resources for this assignment, and many of these sources are provided in the Works Consulted section of individual student narratives. However, the following resources were especially valuable for this project:

Ancestry.com – Genealogy, Family Trees & Family Records

FamilySearch.org – Free Family History and Genealogy Records

The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation

University of Alabama Library Databases: America’s Historical Newspapers, Hathitrust, ProQuest Historical Newspapers

The W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library

Williams Americana Collection