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Well, of course, we knew that!
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:09:51 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 10/29/2018 8:28 PM, wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:04:16 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/29/2018 5:53 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: I don't know what the status of my grandparents was when they "landed" here and got off the boats. Never discussed it with any of them. All four of them became citizens at some point. If they arrived by boat as my grandparents did in 1907, it's doubtful that they entered the USA illegally. I recently came across my grandfather's naturalization papers. He arrived from Sweden in 1907 at the age of 17 and became naturalized in 1916. By then he was married and had one son, my uncle, who was 10 years older than my father. My uncle was a marine engineer. He and I shared the same birthday (Oct 19th) although obviously he was here many years before me. More newcomers ;-) (a little boating content) Even found a picture of the ship my grandfather arrived on in Boston. Also found his manifest ... he paid $10 for the voyage from Liverpool, England via Greenland and then to Boston. http://funkyimg.com/i/2MCaC.jpg Most of my people seemed to arrive in the 1600s or 1700s. I have the immigration records on quite a few but no manifests. I have found them born in UK somewhere and dying in the US. Digging up the immigration records is a little tougher some time. I am just trying to get them all back to Europe right now. I have over 50 now but we are looking at "great to the eight or tenth power" grandparents in a few cases so the power of 2 sends back a pretty big number of immigrants. The Oklahoma people seem to be the newcomers, getting here in the mid to late 1700s The folks around the road from Harry seem to be the earliest, a few showing birth in England in the late 1500s and death in St Mary's county in the early 1600s. There is even a born in Jamestown guy there but it was later (1630s). I was amazed a few old geezers lived into their 80s and even early 90s. The other thing is the men lived longer than the women in those days. It is also amazing that the farther back I went, the better the records. Right around the Civil War (+/- 20 years) is where the black holes showed up although my German seemed to fall out of the sky in 1827. This stuff can really get addictive once you figure out how to look at the documents and toss the bad leads. Ancestry.Com will send you down a rabbit hole now and then. I was poking around in Boston around 1621 for a while, then I figured out it was a bad link. I had to back up a generation and start over. |
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