JoB
HMCRich…
actually.. i don’t know that our ancestors all entered this country legally…
i recently did some geneological work on my family and on hubby’s family…
surprisingly enough in spite of being able to trace one branch of my mother’s family back to the founding colonies… i found ancestors greatgrandparents) on both sides of both of our families for whom there is no record of legal immigration…
that would make them.. gasp.. illegals.
They likely crossed the border from Canada to work in the mines or lumber camps in Minnesota and Wisconsin since I can find record of them arriving and living in Canada before they show up on the US census in those areas.
while researching, i found that i was not alone in that discovery. It’s seems there are many of us who can’t find the legal paperwork for great – grandparents and great-great-grandparents… although naturalization papers often show up for their older children… the younger kids mostly have US birth certificates.
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones…
being Caucasian doesn’t guarantee that your ancestors were legal immigrants.