"katysails" wrote
I have a photograph of my triple great and great great
grandmother Ann
Davitt when they disembarked in New York...

It's amazing all the photos & records.... wouldn't think they were
that organized back then. And who would want their picture taken at
one of the lowest points of their lives?

I have a bunch of old photos of family but none "upon arrival." Many
of my ancestor either came here before photography was invented, or
snuck in illegally and didn't want their picture taken. One of my
maternal ancestors was a sea captain and is said to have made many
undocumented stops to pick up friends & family on the west coast of
Ireland.


...fortunately, 3
great grandfather was already in Minnesaota and had saved
and sent to
Islandeady, Co, Mayo for them....they were lucky and
survived...

The incidence of plague on ships was one of the things that convinced
many doctors in the late 1800s and early 1900s that the germ theory of
disease was incorrect. Plenty of "bad air" on ships.


"Scotty" wrote:
or the slave ships.

That was bad.... but hey, at least they didn't have to row!

DSK