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In reply to the discussion: How did you get here? [View all]LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)72. I wish they could have but my mother died in 1975
and my father went back once, when the Soviet Union had heavy restrictions for foreign visitors, particularly from the US. He was permitted to stay in the only hotel for visitors, which was in Tallinn, the capital. He couldn't travel outside the city to his home town, and I'm not sure he could travel around the city much either. Relatives and friends had to visit him at the hotel. This may have been in the early 1980s; he died in 1988, just a few years before Estonia regained its independence.
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Oh, sure, but that's my paternal great-great-etc. grandfather who first came here
Recursion
Feb 2013
#24
My grandmother and mother crossed the border from Canada to steal cleaning jobs.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#7
My maternal relatives came here as indentured servants. It seems America has written them out
Romulox
Feb 2013
#19
Late 19th century--Mother's side: French/German Father's side: Irish/German
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2013
#20
Well, the Bay Colony gave my 11th grt grandfather land in Lynne, MA that he thought was crap...
HereSince1628
Feb 2013
#22
when my daughter studied theatre in Dublin her Irish friends said she looked so Irish!
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#73
Interesting how there is considerable evidence of positive effects of knowing more than one language
loyalsister
Feb 2013
#49
My paternal grandfather came from what was then Austria-Hungary in 1914 at 13 years old
independentpiney
Feb 2013
#48
Slave ship, Immigration from Greece (just guessing/it was rape), and as a WWII war bride
tblue
Feb 2013
#58
Asian land bridge eons ago along with some French Canadian Irish in the 1800's.
catbyte
Feb 2013
#86