{"id":17161,"date":"2023-10-08T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17161"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:13:42","slug":"one-more-immigrant-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/one-more-immigrant-3\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Immigrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Always keep your mind open to the possibility that more of your family immigrated than you think&#8211;or than family tradition tells you immigrated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My ancestor and his brother immigrated to the United States as young men in their early twenties. They arrived separately a few years apart from each other, but eventually settled in the same area and ended up marrying sisters. But it was not until years later that I discovered these two men had no other full siblings and that their mother had married again in Germany after their father&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She and this second husband had several children and eventually came to the United States themselves. They settled approximately one hundred miles from where her two sons did. I now know that the family apparently kept in some contact, but the story of her immigration was not passed down to future generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have several other immigrant families where a member of an earlier generation also immigrated&#8211;often after their own spouse died or all of their grown children had immigrated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always keep your mind open to the possibility that more of your family immigrated than you think&#8211;or than family tradition tells you immigrated. My ancestor and his brother immigrated to the United States as young men in their early twenties. They arrived separately a few years apart from each other, but eventually settled in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}