Some typical questions to ask...
*When did they come (time period/year).
*Where did they come from?
*Why did they come (What pushed or pulled them to come to the U.S.)?
If you have many stories to share, you are welcome to write about them all.
Monday, May 18, 2015
BLOG 30: YOUR FAMILY'S STORY
Do a little historical research by talking with your parents or another family member about how your family immigrated to America.
Some typical questions to ask...
*When did they come (time period/year).
*Where did they come from?
*Why did they come (What pushed or pulled them to come to the U.S.)?
If you have many stories to share, you are welcome to write about them all.
Some typical questions to ask...
*When did they come (time period/year).
*Where did they come from?
*Why did they come (What pushed or pulled them to come to the U.S.)?
If you have many stories to share, you are welcome to write about them all.
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My grandmother came from Japan about 50 years ago when she found out she was pregnant with my mother. My grandmother thought it was a better place to raise her 3 children and 1 on the way.Also for a better job and just to have a change in scenery.
Michaela Csvihinka
period 1
My grandmothers parents (moms side) came from the Ukraine. My grandfathers parents(moms side) came from Czechoslovakia. My dad's grandparents came from Italy.
They all immigrated here in the early 1900s. Both families moved to the United States because they wanted a better life and there was war starting to break out. It wasn't safe in Europe, so they decided to come here. Also, eventually my grandfathers parents met on the boat to come to the United States which led them to getting married later on.
Caitlin D. P:3
After World War Two ended my grandmother, Christl, came to the United States from Germany at the age of 18 with her older brother. When she was 9 years old her father faught for Germany in Wolrld War two and he was wounded in battle and shortly died after. Being very close with her father she was devastated. Her mother remarried and she often faught with her mother and step father. Christl wanted to get out of her small village in Germany and wanted more freedom from her parents. She dreamed of a new life in America. She put her thoughts to actions and came to America with her brother, Kurt, leaving behind her parents and younger sister. It was a struggle at first because she didn't know any English. Christl and Kurt taught themselves English with flash cards and got a job at a factory. This is how my grandmother came to America
Devin Klittnick
My dads great-great grandfather on his mother's side came from western Ireland in the 1850s. He was a drummer in the Civil War and he had his thumb shot off in battle. My dad does not know his first name, but his last name was Kelley. His family came to the U.S through the state of Maine. His family left Ireland due to the Potato Famine. Also they hoped for a better life because Ireland's economy was collapsing, leaving them all starving. In conclusion this was why my dad's great-great grandfather immigrated from Ireland.
Cailinn Stockman 5/20/15 Per.2
Amanda Flynn
My family came mainly from Poland. They went on a boat ride and came to Ellis Island. They came because they were looking for job opportunitys to make more money and maybe get a new start. The rest of my family came from Ireland and Germany. Some also came from Britain and Spain.
My mom came from Croatia in 1987 when she was 14 years old. She came to live in America with her uncle in Pennsylvania. Before her Mother (my Grandma), died she always would tell her that she would like her to go to America and get a better education and life there. When she was 14 years old she came to America not knowing a lot. When she came to America she was in 9th grade, and had learned English. She learned by the help of her family, listening to people talk, and by teachers helping her in school. This is why my mom came to live in America.
Hannah Epifano
Period:2
Jessie Bennett
p1
My family was always from the u.s but our family friends come from Japan i dont know the full reason why but i know their parents got sick and they came down to help then ended up staying.
Samantha Sisson
Period 3
My great great grandparents, on my dad's side, came from a town in Italy called Castel Vecchio. They came over around 1900 when they were about 16. They came looking for a better life and better jobs.
Manaia Friend
Period 3
5/23/15
I had many ancestors that came to America. They all came in the early 1900s. My dad’s grandparents(my great grandparents) came from Russia and Italy. My mom’s grandparents came from arrived from Portugal and England. All of them left to get out of poverty and to start a new life in America. It was both a push and a pull. A push to get away from poverty and a pull to get more money in America.
Tyler Gaughan per 8
Both my parents were born in New York, and grew up there. However my great-grandfather, on my mother's side, came from Poland. My grand-father, on my father's side, came from England. He had came to Canada for work reasons where he had met my grandmother, who lived in New York. this was going on around the early and late 1900's.
My great-great-great-grandfather (on my mom's side) came from Italy in 1912. In 1914 he went back to get his 10 children (one being my great-great-grandma) and then had another here in America. They all went on to have over 23 children (my great grandma being one of them). We found a news article celebrating his 100th birthday and I was able to learn a little more about him. He lived in New Jersey (my great-great-grandma moved to the Bronx and that's where my great grandma, grandma, and mother grew up, also where I was born) and he was known as a the Balloon Man. After retiring, he sold balloons and other things to children, had huge parties at his house, and constantly had people over, eating fruits and other things from his garden. I also found out that I am the sixth generation of the Silvestri's to live in America. Even though each Silvestri woman has gotten married and changed their names, I know they're still proud of my great-great-great grandpa for making the brave decision to come to America. -Victoria Yencik, Period 3.
Melissa Psaras
Period 1
My family's relations are from Greece and Canada. My father who was eight at the time and his parents and two brothers came from Greece to America in 1971. At the time in Greece their farming family business was starting to decline and the government was in violent relations with other countries. They realized it would be safer and more beneficial to their income to go to America. On my mother's side my grandmother and grandfather came to America from Canada. They were in Canada all their life and they got married their too. However, my grandfather could not find a job in Canada so he came to the United States in 1956 with my grandmother looking for one.
Anna Civitelli Period 1
My mom's grandpa on her dad's side came over to America before World War 1 began. He was born 1894 and came over in 1912.He left Tortoreto, Italy. In Italy he was a farmer. My mom and grandpa are not sure if he was drafted to World War 1 or enlisted. He came over because he thought it would be a better living style. He came by his own will.
On my dads side his grandpa came from Warsaw, Poland, around 1915, and he came to America for more freedom and a better job. My dads other grandpa came from Saint Petersburg, Russia, around the Russian Revolution in 1917. He left for America because he wanted to escape the communists; he worked in a coal mine once moving here for the rest of his life. It was seen as a better pay then back in Russia. His grandfathers family of brothers and sisters all came over and started their own businesses and eventually flourished; they weren't on the poor side of immigrants.
On my moms side her grandparents came from Hungary to America and were married in 1909, in America. My mom can't remember the exact year they came over. Her grandparents came to America because they wanted to have a better life offered to them in America, they became citizens. My mom can't remember any further from that.
Katherine Samonek
Period 1
Sam Gertner Period 1
My grandpa's family went to Palestine from Poland in 1933 when antisemitism was on the rise and the Nazis were in control. They mainly went to Palestine to escape persecution and have a better life. In 1938, his grandma told the rest of the family to leave because she sensed trouble. After they arrived in Palestine, life wasn't easy for them. They had to go through Cyprus before they were let into Palestine because the British had a quota. The remaining family stayed in Austria and they were arrested and brought to Auwitz where they perished.
My grandma's parents were both from the same town in Poland. Life was going well there. When the war broke out, my grandma's grandma told her children to get out and she took them to the train station. They ended up going to Siberia. My grandma's grandma stayed behind assuming everything would be okay. They ended up getting rounded up and sent to Treblinka and they were gassed.
After the war ended, my grandma's parents went back to Germany in 1948 where my grandma was born. In 1949, my grandma's parents and my grandma arrived in Ellis Island.
Megan O'Meara Period 2
My grandmother came from Cork Ireland. She traveled to America alone, but met her great aunt here and lived with her for a few years. She traveled over by plane in 1959. She was only 16 at the time. She traveled over to make a better life for herself. She wanted to be a nurse and wanted the better education to become one as well as the better job oportunities to be a nurse.
All 8 of my maternal great-great-grandparents came from Ireland to the U.S. around 1880 for a better life with more opportunities and jobs. One of them, named Patrick McCarthy, was a fenian who fought for Ireland's freedom against the British. He had a bounty on his head when he went to Wales for hiding. Later they found him, but he escaped once again to the U.S., never to be found again by the British.
DJ Foley
Period 1
My grandfather's mother's father, my great great grandfather, came to America from Luxembourg in 1872 to participate in the homestead act where he claimed land in the Dakota's. After that he brought my Grandfather's mother from Luxembourg. my grandfather's father came to Canada from Germany in 1912, where shortly thereafter he illegally immigrated to America. He returned to Germany to get a German passport and an American Visa. Keep in mind that Germany, at this point, was at war with Europe and America so it is impressive he got ether. He then moved to salt lake city where he met my grandfather's Mother.
Mark Hammer
Period 3
On my dads side he grandfather was from war stock Poland and immigrants here to get away from any bad happening in Poland and for a better job, His grandmother came from Russia and I can't remember what place but both left 1917 to America, on my moms side her grandmother came from Germany she can't remember what place but she thinks because she needed a job.
Joey Samonek per3
My great grandmother moved from Poland to America in the early 1900's. My great grandpa was a shoe maker in Italy and came over when when he was young. My dads great great grandfather came from England in the early 1800's. They landed in Maryland and traveled to Kentucky. They went to Kentucky because of cheap land and started to farm.
Meghan L.
Period 8
My mother's mother came in 1955 from Canada and father's family came from Europe. My grandmother came so she could marry my grandfather. My grandfather just wanted to I guess. My father's mother came for opportunity and came from Yorkshire. My father's father was born here.
Dawson Pallotta Period 8
A person who immigrated who I know is my father. He was born in Argentina and lived there for a few years. He then left Argentina and lived in Mexico for a couple more years. My dad finally went to America in 1965. He said he went to America because of the opportunity.
Andrew period 3
A person who immigrated who I know is my father. He was born in Argentina and lived there for a few years. He then left Argentina and lived in Mexico for a couple more years. My dad finally went to America in 1965. He said he went to America because of the opportunity.
Andrew period 3
My moms grandparents came over from Canada to America because they came from a very big family and there weren't many oppertunities or jobs. My great grandmother got a factory job lewiston,Maine and my great grandfather bought a farm. The raised a family in Maine then my Grandparents moved to Connecticut.
Sarah Townson Period 2
My grandparents came from Ireland in 1982. My grandpa came to America to find jobs and money so he could have support for his family. He only had a wife then not children. My grandparents had my dad when they were in America, so only my grandparents were actually from Ireland. But, my grandparents had to adapt to the new environment, and it was hard for them, but they caught along.
Madison Samperi
Period 3
My mothers side came on a boat from Czechoslovakia to Ellis Island in the 1900s for work, money and a better life.
period 1
Amanda hanna
My grandfather was pushed here to America because of the increasing danger in Germany right before WW2. When he lived in Germany, he was part of the Hitler Youth. After he and his family realized it wasn't just Boy Scouts, it was training to be a Nazi solider at a young age, he quit. As things began to escalate in Germany the left the country and went to America to hopefully live a better and safer life, which they did.
Tommy Brisch
My dad came from India in 2000 because my mom was already in the U.S. Also he had felt out of place in India as a Catholic as a minority. What pulled him to the U.S was the better pay, quality of life, and jobs. There were many opportunities in the U.S that he could not have gotten in a third-world country (It no longer is, but was at the time of his immigration).
-Michelle A.
Period 1
My dad and his entire family came to America from Portugal in 1969, when he was 9 years old. His family was pulled to the US for a better life, for better jobs to make more money and a fresh start . My mom and her entire family also came from Portugal around 1975 for mostly the same reasons.
Melissa Santos
Period: 3
Caitlyn Gruber
Period 8
In 1891 my great grandfather came to America from Austria. The reason why he came here was for the jobs and to get away from the turmoil in Central Europe.
Jake mccarthy pr.1
according to my mother my great great grand father came to the U.S about 100 years ago from Italy. I visited the house and farm he grew up on and meet many family members in northern Italy. It was a great experience that i got to learn where i came from and how my family was raised.
My Great Grandfather was hungarian and at the time there was a war i think and he had to come to the united states because there was no jobs that were good for supporting a family but when he came here he changed his last name i think i know it is pronounced differently form then i am not sure.
Briana Stockbridge
Per.2
Kayla PLunkett per. 8
Although I do not have a full story of my ancestors, I do know that my grandmother's grandparents had come from Italy. They arrived in the late 1800's- early 1900's. They wanted to come here because they had other family living here, (I am not sure of who was here prior to them) and they wanted to be closer to them. Because of this, I am part Italian because of my grandma's grandparents immigration to America from Italy.
My grandmothers grandparents lived in Ravenna, Italy. They immigrated to America in October of 1913. Her grandfather said he wanted to move because he was adventurous. He came over with his wife and two young children. They left from Genoa, Italy and came over on a ship called Principe Di Piemonte. They sailed in 3rd class and arrived at Ellis Island. Her grandmother learned English so quickly that she became an interpreter for doctors for other immigrants. Her grandfather worked on the New Haven railroad for 37 years.
Rachel Colegrove period 1
My maternal great great Grandfather came from Spain and settled in Puerto Rico. He immigrated from Spain in the late 1800s. He came looking for a better life for his future family. At that time Puerto Rico was still a colony of Spain. According to stories my grandmother would tell, under Spanish rule, soldiers would knock on people's door and ask; "Who lives here?" People would have to answer: "The King of Spain." If they did not answer this they could be arrested. One of his sons, my great Grandfather, was a foreman of a tobbaco farm in Puerto Rico. By this time Puerto Rico had been taken over by the United States. One of his daughters, My Grandmother became a teacher. She and my Grandfather migrated to the continental United states in 1978. My mom was eleven years old when they moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Most of my family still lives in Puerto Rico from my mom's and Dad's side. Puerto Rico still remains a colony of the United States.
Maria Castro-Rodriguez
period 1
My great grandpa came from Greece in the early 1900's. I think they came because they wanted to get a job and own more land than back in Europe.
Brendan Andros, per. 3
Mike Kusick 8
My family originally came from Italy and Lithuania in the mid 1930's They came to New York and they lived mainly in Bronx New York. They came to America to expierence the better economy. Which is a pull effect.
Alyssa Noce
Period 2
My great grandfather John DelVecchio came to America around the 1920's because his family was in search of a better life in America. While being processed through Ellis Island, he was diagnosed with fever caused by an infection received on the ship coming over from Italy. He was stopped from entering until he was cured. He came from the town of Castelfranco, Italy. He only came with his immediate family.
My dad’s side of the family came from Poland and Germany. They came over during the late 1800s/early 1900s to escape Hitler and World War 1. They also wanted a better life and freedom for their children. My mom’s side of the family were from Ireland and Italy. They came over in the early 1900s also. They too, came over for better opportunities for their children.
Maddie Winters
Period 1
MY mothers grandfather came to America from Ireland because his family and parents needed a more wealthy living place and needed to get more money. Jessie Bennett p1
I couldn't find exactly when or who came over from my family but what I do know is that from the Halloran side we did have a few people come through Ellis Island. These ancestors originated from Ireland. They decided to leave Ireland to come to the United States to have a better chance in life with more land and better jobs. It looks like they got their wish when they got here.
Period 1
Campbell Halloran
My great great grandparents came from Italy around 1970. They came to better themselves and to get better jobs to work.
Alexa Allan
Period 2
Will Ferraro
Most of my family were originally from Italy. My grandparents moved here not to along ago and had my mom and uncles.
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