{"id":526,"date":"2011-11-21T03:54:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2011-11-22T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:45:53","slug":"searching-for-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/searching-for-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>When people move and emigrate to a new land, they often <span style=\"color: #333399;\">lose track of<\/span> their ancestry.\u00a0 Records are lost, memories are lost.\u00a0 When <span style=\"color: #333399;\">the older generation<\/span> dies, there is often nobody left to tell the story of their ancestry to <span style=\"color: #333399;\">the younger generation<\/span>.<\/h3>\n<p>In the United States, websites abound that specialize in doing <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">ancestral<\/span><\/strong> searches.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the biggest websites is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">ancestry.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Americans can&#8217;t get enough of searching for their ancestors. They want to do their <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>family tree<\/strong><\/span>. They want to know who their <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">long-lost relatives<\/span><\/strong> are. Sometimes they&#8217;ll have a family reunion and meet, for the first time, long-l0st relatives.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Who are my ancestors? Where did my ancestors come from? Do I have living relatives who I don&#8217;t know exist? <\/em><\/h2>\n<p>These are some of the questions that Americans ask themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Americans whose ancestors arrived in the United States between 1892 and 1924\u00a0 use sites such as <a title=\"Ellis Island\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ellisisland.org\">Ellisisland.org<\/a> to help them identify their ancestors and to learn about their <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>background<\/strong><\/span>s. Ellis Island opened on January 1, 1892 as a port of migration for millions, and closed as a port of mass migration in 1924, when the government began to heavily restrict immigration into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>What do you know about your ancestors?\u00a0 Are you interested in doing an ancestral search? \u00a0Are you interested in learning more about your family tree?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How, and why, have memories gotten lost?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>For an additional <a title=\"Ellis Island\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/Reading\/Reading_Ellis.Island.Timeline.html\">reading comprehension activity about Ellis Island, click on this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people move and emigrate to a new land, they often lose track of their ancestry.\u00a0 Records are lost, memories are lost.\u00a0 When the older generation dies, there is often nobody left to tell the story of their ancestry to the younger generation. In the United States, websites abound that specialize in doing ancestral searches.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-english-vocabulary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}