sarah in nyc

My mother's father was an illegal immigrant in 1906. He came on the  visa of a relative who had died before he could make use of it. Amazon.com Widgets You can see in this document that he arrived in 1906, renounced all allegiances to Czar Nicholas II and intended to become a citizen. Papa intended to become a citizen in 1917, as you can see here. He was already married and was the father of two children and was gainfully employed as a wood worker. My grandfather though, never appeared at his petition meeting. He knew that he had arrived using false papers. My grandfather never became a citizen. He was also not deported.  Had he been deported my grandmother would have possibly raised my two aunts here in New York as a single mother. Possibly my grandmother would have returned with my grandfather to either Frampol, the tiny Ukrainian town my grandfather had come from or to Czernowitz the place my grandmother had escaped from just ten years before. In all lik...