[fella]

My Dad came by ship from Peru via the fairly new Panama Canal and my Moms family was given the choice of hanging at Newgate or “immigrating” to Georgia as indentured servants so they came by ship too.So how did your famlies get here?

[SunkenCiv]

Varied. One set of ancestors left England because their children kept dying in infancy. Another left because they were basically hired to settle territory granted to a “Sir”. Some came over in a wave of emigration from places like Scotland, Ireland, and Germany, in the 18th century. A mess of them came from New England, with just a few coming from New Amsterdam. :’) My most recent immigrant ancestors left Germany because of the short-lived war turmoil under Bismarck. Basically, all of them saw the opportunities offered as better than what they could look forward to, and saw little difference in the risks.