migration project: part two

            Many people immigrate to different countries. They just decide where they want to go, and find a way to get there. Everyone has their own reason for doing this. Maybe their looking for something or maybe they just want to start over. Many people decided to come to the United States way back when. They just packed up what they had and found a way to get over to the United States from wherever it is that they were previously living. However, some people may have come just a few years ago. Other families could have been living in this country for a couple hundred years. Maybe some were here even longer than that.

Some families could have been here for fifty years or less. Others could have been here for countless years. Maybe some people will never know where their family originally came from, or if they do, when they came to America. Still others could have migrated to the United States after years of being in another country. My mom and my dad were both born in the United States. To be more specific, they said they both were born in Maryland. On my dad’s side, both my grandmother and my grandfather were born in America. Both of my great-grandparents were born here, also on my dad’s side. My grandmother and my grandfather on my mom’s side were both born in the United States. My other great-grandparents on my mom’s side were born in America as well.

As far as my family knows, the first person with the family name came here from England. They migrated over to the United States sometime in the mid 1600’s. We think they decided to come over to America because they wanted to find better farmland. My family has now been citizens of the United States for over three hundred years.