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            For the past week and a half, we have been listening to the stories of people’s immigration process and their history for the Ancestry Project. I find it very interesting because there were so many different stories and experiences. Also, many people were able to learn new things from their family members by searching through Ancestry.com and analyzing the data. Although the person I researched on was not that interesting, I was able to learn how complicated it is to find data on individuals and try to make sense from various forms of documentations. Looking through the data on the website was very time consuming because there were so many people with the same name and similar information. I had to actually read through all the documents and calculate the dates to see if they matched up. As if that wasn’t hard enough, the handwriting on the censuses were extremely illegible, which made the whole process even worse! What I did enjoy from this project, however, was hearing the unique stories of some of the immigrants and compare their processes with what was described in Roger Daniels’ book.