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.
Faculty salaries, their offices and space for the project's operations are provided by BYU. A $4 million endowment will provide funding for the project in perpetuity. The annual operating costs for phases I, II, and III are $150,000.
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.