confusion in regard to passenger lists and attaching to family member
Hi
I have a family member who is a US citizen was on a passenger list and when I went to attach the document it gave the event as immigration.
How can he be immigrating when he is a US citizen already or is the word immigration just a generic word for travel from one country to another.
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Erica Fisher
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I wouldn't say "generic" so much as "over-broadly used". Most records categorized as "Immigration" are actually better labeled "Travel". (This is true also on Ancestry and nearly all of the other genealogy sites, not just at FamilySearch.)
You can decline Source Linker's offer of creating an "immigration" event, and instead enter the arrival as a custom event titled something like "travel from France". I did that for the Famous Relative's earliest arrival document, which was for a scientific conference; he didn't actually immigrate until nearly a decade later.
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I tend to agree with @Julia Szent-Györgyi on this one, and I would use a custom event for travel or arrival.
However - the legal definition, found an the website of an immigration law firm:
When immigrating to the US, there are four different immigration status categories that immigrants may fall into: citizens, residents, non-immigrants, and undocumented immigrants.
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I use the Immigration event because the Immigration event, rather than a Custom event, seems to help the hints system find more historical records of arrivals and departures.
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The word is generic.
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