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20 May 2025
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Eastern)
Many immigrants entered the US under the Displaced Persons Act. Based on specific criteria, eligible displaced persons (DPs) could be admitted to the US if they would not become a public charge and have safe and sanitary housing and employment without displacing some other person. The displaced person or refugee was the concern of the International Refugee Organization. The US created the Displaced Persons Commission to oversee the act’s enactment. Is your ancestor named in the record sets created? The presentation will discuss the History of the Act and the records created as a result of the Act.
Read about presenter C. Ann Staley, CG, CGL
C. Ann Staley, CG®, CGLSM, has spoken regionally, nationally, and at sea. She serves as the Membership Chair for the Genealogical Speakers Guild; on the faculty of The International Institute for Genealogical Studies; a volunteer on a number of the National Genealogical Society committees; and as a volunteer of the Florida State Genealogical Society. She served previously on the board of the Association of Professional Genealogists and has taught at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR). Ann is the author of articles for the NGS Magazine, the co-author of the NGS Research in the States Series: Florida, and is the compiler of the Jacksonville Genealogical Society, Inc. Quarterly Full Name Index, Volumes 1 through 4, 1973 through 1976. Ann has been researching her family from Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, and Virginia to France, England, Ireland, and Germany.