On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 05:11:43 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <
[email protected]>
wrote:
Glad your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Mine didn't.
Mine immigrated legally from Germany through Ellis Island and we still have >the documentation that proves it.
While mine came from Germany (at least the ones bearing the family
name) Ellis Island was just another random island that didn't have any particular significance (e.g. in the very early 18th century). And
while those same ancestors didn't come on the Mayflower one of them
married a lady (and indirectly made me) whose ancestors DID.
Thus I am a Canadian whose daughters could qualify for Daughters of
the American Revolution. One of whom did an exchange year in Baltimore
MD art school (Maryland Institute College of Art) whose classmates
over drinks one night were talking about the American Revolution and
the DAR when she surprised them by saying that SHE (a non-American)
could qualify for DAR membership.
In fact the nephew of my oldest forebear I've been able to track
founded this place in upstate NY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craver_Farmstead
How this makes me superior to anybody else is completely beyond me.
And so far as I know, neither he nor anybody else that we know of ever
came from Europe without their paperwork in order.
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