Reply #99: My Dad came over in 1929 at age 5

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Really bad timing, no? My paternal grandfather came over first in Jan 1929 and sent money for my grandmother and dad to come over in July. Then the Depression started in October :-(. They came here for the jobs.

My maternal grandfather came over in 1904 and his wife (my Grandmother) came over in 1921. They married here. She never met him before, so it was an arranged marriage through her Uncle.

Curiously, my Dad never wanted to go over there and see what it was like until about one year before he died. I really wish we had gone over together. Maybe one day I will get there. But as he always said, "There is a reason all of your grandparents left the old country". I think there were all pretty poverty stricken....