[cripplecreek]

In the course of my genealogy research I’ve found lots of legal recordings of ancestors immigrating to America including where they were headed once here, how long they intended to stay and what they intended to do. In fact Catholic immigration into the colonies and early nation was pretty restricted till about 1800.

[Ditter]

My ancestors came from England and I have some scribbled notes about a land grant from England and another about the Isle of Wight. Then they left N.C. went to Tennessee, Missouri and then Texas, where they stayed. They were subsistence farmers and people like that don't leave many tracks (in the record books). My brother and I have decided to hire a professional genealogist to do it for us (after trying to do it for ourselves for a while) LOL!