Family Migration Artifact

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our Family Migration History:

Who Are We?

We tell our own families' migration stories through presenting a family migration artifact and explaining its meaning for us and our families. Here you may learn:

where did they come from
when did they come to the United States
why did they leave their homelands

Where did your family come from?

Some of us came to the US quite recently (since 1965):

Angel Flores, Mexico (Sinaloa) 1980s

Patrick Ingham, Ireland 1971

Melitza Mejia-Centeno, Mexico (Nayarit) 1986

Lirio Orozco-Chavez, Mexico (Michoacán) 1985

Teresa Rodriguez, Mexico (Tamaulipas) 1966

Paul Schiopu, Romania 2003

Negine Sekandari, Afghanistan 1980

Why 1965?

Find out about the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965

Some of us have been here quite a while (before 1965):

Richelle Aldrich, Yugoslavia 1950s

Cynthia Canez, Mexico (Sonora) 1950s

Jessica Carlise, Italy (Sicily) 1920s

Christen Garden, Wales 1700s

Darian Hall, England 1800s

Ginger Lee, Norway 1850s

Kyle Lummus, England & Ireland 1800s

Kayla Miller, Mexico (Guanajuato) 1910s

Becca Qualls, Poland, early 20th C

Lauren Tennison, Canada 1910

Dr k, Italy and the Ukraine, e 20th C