re: #168 engineer cat

it seems all my great grandparents arrived from central and eastern europe in the 1870s and 1880s - which puts them before the bulk of jewish immigration that took place from the 1890s through WWI

…except for one grandparent whose people came over in the 1840s. his grandfather was recorded as a cigar maker and listed as eligible for service in the civil war

My ancestors are of Irish and Scottish stock (with a dash of German for flavor, plus I’m sure some other stuff we don’t know about), and were among the first settlers to reach the Indiana Territory in the early 1800’s. We still have one of the trunks that came through Ellis Island.