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Ancestry.com Allows Free Access to Immigration and Naturalization Records

Ancestry.com announced today that there will be an entire week of free access to its U.S. and international immigration and naturalization records. The free access week begins August 29 and runs through the American Labor Day holiday ending September 5. During this time, all visitors to Ancestry.com will be able to the indices and images of new and updated U.S. immigration records as well as selected international immigration records from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Mexico.

These records include ships’ passenger and crew lists, declarations of intent, petitions for naturalization, witness affidavits, border crossings, certificates and other records generated by the naturalization process, which is the act and procedure of becoming a new citizen of a country. Because the process has changed significantly over time and varies from country to country, different records are available from a wide variety of state, federal and international sources.

The immigration and naturalization records can be found at http://www.ancestry.com/immigration.

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