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The numbers you have gathered
from the On-Line Historical Census only give you an indication of
migration patterns. In and of themselves they tell us little about
the immigrants themselves. One way to spin-off of this research
into research that introduces us to the peoples of this immigration is
by doing oral histories. The best place to start your oral history
is within your own family or friends. Find out when they arrived
in this area, and run a census count on the area they left and the area
they came to. After that, do an oral history based on one of the
pages or models below:
Learning
About Immigration Through Oral History - The Library of Congress lesson
plan for formal oral histories of immigrants.