Blogs

right now we are talking about our presetations and what we can do to improve our presentations then we're going to go over our assigned blog posts from like a billion weeks ago...accually i lied its from like four weeks ago but it seems like a billi

7-1: The New Immigrants

-between 1870 and 1920, 20 million Europeans came to the U.S.

-1907: a million people came to U.S. from Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Russia

-came here to escape religious problems and to get away from the King's ways, wanted farm

My Grandpa Bruck’s side:

My great great grandpa, Nicholas Windehausen, lived in Metcher, Luxemburg. My great great grandma, Theresa Wark, lived in Bilstorf, Luxemberg. My grandma wasn’t sure where they immigrated to from Luxemburg, but they were marri

Ellis island is a small island in the New York harbor. Between 1855-1890 over 8 million people came through there. Between 1892-1954 over 12 million immagrants came through there. Most of the people came from England, Ireland,Germany, and Scandanavia

Heese Side

The Farthest I could go back in my Ancestory was to my great grandpa and grandpa on the Heese side. I learned that they came from Germany to farm, to have a better life and more freedom. My grandpa's parnents were Frank Heese born on March

Daeges

Jacob Daeges was born in Prussia on May 4, 1876. He was the son of Michael and Johannah Daeges. He came to America with his parents when he was 8 years old. They settled in Shelby County and Jacob worked on his father's farm until he grew older

How I (and the rest of my family) Came to be in America

Many years before any of us were born, immigrants came like crazy to the United States. Some came alone, and some came with family. Some came to search for work, and some came because they alread