[cowboyusa]

Also from Ukraine. My Great-Grandfather emigrated in 1905 at 14, lived in Liverpool for 6 years, and cane to the US in 1911. Then brought the whole family of 7 kids! And parents over. They had enough of pogroms.

[nbenyo]

Great grandparents came in 1900. He worked in the PA coal mines. My grandmother was born in 1907 near Wilkes-Barre. Her father got black lung and could not work. There was no disability and they tried to survive by taking in boarders. They eventually had to return to Europe. My grandmother returned to the US in 1924, as a US citizen.