OT: Heritage (was Re: Answering the phone WAS: ...)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:11 -0400):
[...]
> Someone raised the issue of accents.  I have to comment.  Both sides of my
> family came over--all four grandparents.  Two from Hungary, two from
> Czechoslovakia.  All pre-WWII.  My parents were first-generation
> America-born in my families.
[...]

None of my grandparents were born in the U.S.  (And, technically, I am
first-generation on my father's side, as he didn't come here until he
was about 4.)  My father's parents were from Lithuania, and my mother's
were from Poland/Austria/Russia/whatever depending on what year you are
talking about, and where the borders happened to be drawn that year.

However, as I understand it, their attitude upon arrival was "we are
now Americans, and we're going to speak English only".  (My uncle told
a story about how they got English lessons from one of the stewards on
the ship they used to cross the ocean.)

(Begin lame attempt to bring this back on-topic.)

I used to keep a family tree in a filePro database, but I switched to
a commercial genealogy program many years ago.  (Yes, I do use software
other than filePro.  Why do you ask?)

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