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Facts and Tips
Your immigrant ancestor is the first person of an ancestral line to settle in a given country.
[Immigration - Naturalization]
A person may not have been living on the day the census was actually taken (not the official day). However, all information is supposed to be "as of" the official census day.
[Census]
STATE LAND STATES are states that owned and distributed their lands. This includes the original 13 colonies, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Vermont and West Virginia, Hawaii and Texas. They use "metes and bounds" to survey the land.
[Land Records]
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