[dfwgator]

When my great grandfather came here from Austria he was required to speak enough english to work.

Why wouldn't they let him speak Austrian?

[cripplecreek]

Why wouldn't they let him speak Austrian?

Because America was smarter back then.

We've been doing a lot of digging into family history lately and recently got copies of some of his immigration paperwork. This part is his renunciation of his Austrian citizenship (Astrio-Hungarian)