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My family has lived in San Diego since 1898!

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My family has lived in San Diego since 1898!

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Historically, what was going on in the US or in your family's country during this time and did it affect your family?

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Historically, what was going on in the US or in your family's country during this time and did it affect your family?

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My family from Mexico had begun migrating to the US for work reasons in the late 1890s. Majority of my family were refugees from the Mexico Revolution.

My family in Fall River Mass attended the Lizzie Borden trial and it was an epic few years with a lot of media attention. My entire East Coast family was hit very hard during the Spanish Flu. We lost a lot of family members. My great-great grandparents lost much of our wealth in the stock market crash and moved to the lower side of New York to rebuild.

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My family overall did not have many challenges in the 1900s. My family in San Diego had established agricultural skills and easily found work in LA and East County.

My family on the East Coast also had skills that enabled them to be quickly employed. We were sailors, owned gas stations, stables, and became FBI agents.

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How and Why did your family come to the United States??

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How and Why did your family come to the United States??

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My father's side came from Baja California. It was easy to cross into the US during the 1890s-1920s because of the need for farm labor and were refugees sheltering from the Mexican Revolution.
My half of my mother's side came from Scotland to Ellis Island and because they were white, literate, and wealthy had no issues with settling into New York. The other half of my mother's side came from Cape Verde as Merchant Marines. They settled in Portuguese town of Fall River Mass.