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About IAP
Immigrant Ancestors is a project sponsored by Brigham Young University’s Center for Family History and Genealogy. To create the database, images of emigrant records are transmitted over the Web to hundreds of volunteers who extract their contents and send them back to the project team at Brigham Young University (BYU). BYU students are hired as part of the project team to supervise the volunteers and edit their work before adding it to the database. Funds raised for the project through generous donors will pay wages to student researchers and provide microfilm, digital images or photocopies of immigrant records that will ultimately be extracted, indexed and made available to genealogists and family historians everywhere. For any questions regarding the project or to make a donation to the project, we invite you to contact us.
Volunteer of the Month - Mirtha Cabezas
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Mirtha Cabezas has participated in family history and genealogy for about five years. She does it as a hobby because she loves it. When she does family history, she feels like she is remaking ties that have been cut in families, and she is the means by which they can connect. It is a joy to be able to transmit information to someone who needs a date or information in order to reestablish a connection with their ancestors. It's like retying what was once broken because of circumstances beyond our control. Her hobbies are reading, listening to music, and gardening. She has information about her family that she could share, but it isn't much. The Spanish Civil War left few remaining records, and she's been unable to make any more discoveries. |
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