My Memere was born in 1910 in Connecticut. My Old Memere was born in Quebec... no one really knows the year because all they had was her baptism document. The government almost deported her during WWII... although she had lived here LEGALLY at that time for many years. I guess they thought there was a threat from French Canucks!
My Memere’s , Pepere’s were all both born in the USA. Aroostook County, Maine. Grandparents were born between 1890 till 1908 in border towns. All on the USA side of the St. John River. Parents too. Thank God I am an American. I saw the house where my father grew up. On a the last house on a street where the border river was behind his house. They moved there in 1938 after his dad lost his farm. His father went to work in the paper mill one block away.