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US immigrant files to be opened to public |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 |
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Temporary files are destroyed by the Federal government in the US after 75 years so many were worried that the war brides immigration records would go this way unless something was done.
In June the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the National Archives and Records Administration signed a deal to preserve all 53 million files on U.S. immigrants. These will be made available to the public through a federal facility in Kansas City.
A small group calling themselves Save Our National Archives (SONA) has been working towards this goal and are now delighted that these files, which provide valuable information on those who emigrated to the USA, will soon be available. These files are not just about war brides, they are also the files of Africans, south east Asians as well as European immigrants. Previously the only files available had been for those coming through Ellis Island in New York which is only a very small percentage of US immigrants.
The first batch of around 135,000 is expected to be available later this year from the National Archives storage facility. Files will only be open to the immigrants and become available to others 100 years after an immigrant's birth.
Read the full AAP report here .
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 June 2009 )
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British War Brides of Chinese Australian Diggers |
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Monday, 30 March 2009 |
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Alastair Kennedy from the Australian
Demographic and Social Research Institute at Canberra's ANU, has
unearthed a handful of unusual war brides from the First World War.
Alastair writes about the brides he has found...
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 April 2009 )
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They came for love of an Aussie |
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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It is impossible to estimate without official records, but it is probable that almost 50,000 women came to Australia in the twentieth century because they fell in love with an Aussie during a time of war. Carol Fallows, whose own mother arrived in Australia in 1946 on assisted passage as a fiancée of an Australian airman, reveals some of their stories
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 April 2009 )
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