A government genealogy service lets family history leap off the page

USCIS has a service that helps families learn their history in this country. For only $20, they will run a search for all information related to a particular person. - - Donna Poisl

A little-known program of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provides information that bridges oceans.

By Anna Gorman

At first glance, the photo-copied documents simply looked like government forms and applications.

But when Susanne Mori read more closely, she found the story of her grandfather's life as he made his way in America more than five decades ago. Those 23 pages of facts and dates revealed how a young man, Jinbei Mori, left Japan and arrived in San Francisco the month after the 1906 earthquake, how he spent decades working for the Union Pacific Railroad, how his home was searched by the FBI during World War II.
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