America is a country of immigrants, and unless your people are 100 percent aboriginal to North America, at least one of your ascendants are from elsewhere. I've always been fascinated with my family's ties to the old country. One set of great-grandparents is from Italy, or Sicily to be more exact. They went through the whole Ellis Island thing and eventually lived in Little Italy for a little while. When I see the parts of The Godfather: Part II when Don Vito came as a little boy to America through Ellis Island from Sicily, I just can't help but think that is what my great-grandparents experienced.
Above is the naturalization papers form my great-grandpa Charlie in 1922.
I wonder if they still use "in the year of our Lord..." in new docs?
