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2026-02-20 What You Can Learn from Passport Applications: When your ancestors traveled to and from the United States, passports were essential, as far back as 1795. As this Ancestry blog article points out, passport applications captured key information such as date and place of birth, place of residence, names and ages of others traveling with them, and photographs for later passports. To learn more about using passport applications for research, see Goal D3 in the United States page.
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