Chain Migration
Presented by Suzanne Hoffman
7:00 pm CT, Cook Park Library, 413 N. Milwaukee Ave, Libertyville, IL
Did you ever wonder how your ancestors chose a location to move to? What was the impetus that put them in a particular spot, or in a specific geographic region as opposed to another. We are going to explore the chain migration of immigrants to northern Illinois. Who were they and why did they settle where they did. We can match ethnic groups or people from the same location and follow their settlement patterns. The Push and Pull factors unique to them and the waves of migration will be identified for each ethnicity. We will look at: Germans, Swedes, Welsh, Irish, Jews, Italians, African Americans, Polish, and others if we get time.
Forensic specialization working on Probate and Heir searches originating in Illinois or Eastern Europe. Available for any local, state, or federal document retrieval in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois. Expertise in Jewish heritage and record access from Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and other Pale of Settlement territories. Personal family History Research in Cook (with record access to restricted records) and Sangamon Counties of Illinois; Norfolk, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of Massachusetts; states of Maine and Rhode Island.
Currently, Vice President of APG, Secretary of the APG Forensic Special Interest Group, and an APG representative to the Record Preservation and Access Coalition, as well as Secretary of the Illinois State Genealogical Society and Chair of its Advocacy Committee.
To attend in person or via Zoom, please register through the Cook Memorial Library website: https://cooklib.libnet.info/events
