Posted by Fixerupper on January 30, 2012 at 05:09:01 from (199.120.105.202):
In Reply to: Why here?? posted by flying belgian on January 29, 2012 at 20:35:57:
I get the idea there was a lot of friction between the different countries of Europe and the eastern Baltic countries years ago so the most logical place to move to was the US. In the US there were individual communities that were populated with mainly people from one particular country so the Germans could come to a German speaking US town where they could get help settling, the Swedes could find a Swedish town, etc.
Almost all of my ancestors came from Denmark. One great-grandmother came from Norway, the rest from Denmark in the later 1800's. There are Nielsens, Jensens, Larsens, Mikkelsens, Danielsens, and whatever other scandinavian names there were, in my linneage. Some of them already had a family when they came over and some were young and single. But that's about all I know about my early family here in the US. I know grandpa Jensen was 14 when he arrived here. Grandpa Jensen said he'd sneak into the neighbor's chicken house and eat raw eggs when he couldn't find anything else to eat so starvation must have been the big issue in Europe at that time. Jim
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