Hello world! My name is Heather. I am a 23 year old senior at Brigham Young University, and I am the Student Supervisor for the British Section of “The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University. This project uses emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries. Volunteers working with scholars and researchers at Brigham Young University are creating a database of millions of immigrants based on these emigration registers.”
I am traveling to England this summer on an internship for the Immigrant Ancestors Project and will be serving as the facilitator for this field study. This is an honor because the Kennedy International Center routinely selects facilitators from students that have been to the country prior to the internship. In two weeks I will be standing in the British Museum Reading Room of the British Library in London, England (pictured above) surrounded by books. I love books, and I want to get a masters degree in library science. While on my internship, I will be doing genealogical research and filming emigration records for the Immigrant Ancestors Project. This internship is a dream come true for me because it combines so many of my favorite things: books, libraries, genealogy, and travel to the home of my ancestors. Many of my family and friends have contributed so much to help make this dream come true; I will be using this blog as an internship travel journal to document my journey so that it can be your journey too. Enjoy!
