Day Without Immigrants

[deborahjross]

Today is the Day Without Immigrants. I wouldn't be here if my father had not been allowed to immigrate in 1922, before the quota on Jews.

What's your immigration story?

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

My father was an anchor baby, as both of his parents wandered across the border without ceremony. Since they were Canadians, no one paid much attention . . .

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Gotta watch those Canadians... (my mother was Quebecoise, so I know).

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

One branch of our family came to Georgia because they were transported from England as criminals. One branch came from the third son of one of the descendants of a German knight, whose last name was Van Zorn (lived on the river Zorn, and name changed to simply Zorn upon immigration). One branch are Scotch-Irish, which means they kept skipping from town to town. And my great-grandmother wasn't an immigrant at all, but was a member of the Cherokee tribe.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

What a fascinating family history!