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How the Yorkers Immigrated to Philadelphia

How the Yorkers Immigrated to Philadelphia

tammy

Here's how Grandmom's family left Russia for a new life in the U.S. fifteen years before she was born.

April 15, 1858 – 1950
  • 31
  • pogrom
  • Philadelphia
  • Russia
  • Kanev
  • Bobrow
  • Yorker
  • Davis
Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?

Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?

tammy

The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.

12/4/1901 – 2000
  • 13
  • immigration
  • Rosenbaum Bank
  • Philadelphia
  • Hamburg
  • Liverpool
  • Yorker
  • SKVERSKY
Samuel McCormick (abt.1831-1887)

Samuel McCormick (abt.1831-1887)

Michael McCormick

After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.

1831 – Sep 1979
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