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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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I know that most of my family came to the US in the 1780's during the revolutionary war and have settled in Virginia at the time. They originated in Germany then presumbably changed our last name to more easily pronounceible at the time. However there has been more people that have immigrated into the US. like my mom who's from Russia and my grandmother from the Phillippines. They both came here because the both have family in the US.

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What was going on Historically in the U.S. during this time and did it affect your family? 

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What was going on Historically in the U.S. during this time and did it affect your family? 

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What was happening in this time was the revolutionary war and my ancestors just so happened immigrate at the time. As far as I know some might've fought with the revolutionaries during this time. But skipping a century or two, during around the 1960's my grandma moved to the states with my grandpa; it was still a stigma to date someone outside your race. Fast forward to the 1990's at this time the US was in a great economic boom and the internet was being applied in almost every household. My dad just so happened to be an adult during this time and joined the military at this point. Once my parents met my mom had a very hard time speaking English. But over time she learned and picked up a bit more words and soon became fluent in English.

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many obstacles that my ancestors faced were trying to survive in a new world and trying to not starve to death while making ends meet. While for more recent desendants they had to struggle with more internal threats; like not being able to speak english or not having a lot of money for medical care or enough foods for proper meals etc.