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katy

wrote:
"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?

They didn't comsider it the lowest point...the lowest point was when
they were all dying off of starvation and being poisoned back in
Mayo....reaching the US was the culmination of a dream where there was
hope....

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