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Bridget Burke

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Wed May-24-06 12:39 PM
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24. My father's parents showed up at Ellis Island.

They passed their physicals & got permission to enter the country legally. No Immigration Lawyers, no endless paperwork.

As Irish Catholics, they faced some xenophobia--but they did qualify as "white." Just barely, according to some!

Don't know about my earlier ancestors. But things were even looser in those days.

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