They Came in Ships: Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record (3rd Edition)
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Book details
- Author
- John Colleta
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
- Topics
- genealogy research · immigration records · ship passenger lists · immigrant ancestors · naturalization records · arrival records · family history
- ISBN-13
- 9780916489373 (Paperback)9781630264703 (Hardcover)
About the author
JOHN PHILIP COLLETTA, Ph.D., is a genealogist, lecturer, and author whose publications include Only a Few Bones: A True Account of the Rolling Fork Tragedy and Its Aftermath, Finding Italian Roots: The Complete Guide for Americans, and They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Arrival Record.
Colletta holds a doctorate from The Catholic University of America and spent twenty years at the Library of Congress while teaching workshops at the National Archives. He is a faculty member at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University, the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, and Boston University’s Certificate in Family History program.
When not writing, Colletta conducts programs for the Smithsonian Institution’s Resident Associate Program and lectures nationally. In 2014, The Teaching Company released his 15-lesson course, Discovering Your Roots: The Fundamentals of Genealogy, as one of their Great Courses.
John is based in Washington, D.C.