re: #376 HappyWarrior

Same here. My latest ancestor arrived in 1921. She just missed being subject to the 1924 Quotas for Southern and Eastern Europe.

Typical. The 1924 Immigration Act was specifically crafted to make sure that the biggest of those (further-restricted) quotas were reserved for those countries that were sending the least number of immigrants by 1924 - to make sure that the fewest “undesirables” got in. (They used quotas based on the “national origins” numbers in the 1890 census)