However, after watching episode 2 I realized that we had just moved ahead one hour for daylight savings, so 11:30pm was actually 10:30 pm old time (Saturday and before) so since I'm mostly retired I realized I could stay up and watch episode 3 too.
My mother's parents came over through Ellis Island coming back from Scotland. So, I think my grandfather wasn't born in the U.S. but rather naturalized here? not sure. Any way somehow by the age of 8 he was a citizen of the U.S. when his Dad died in Boston and his mother and sister and brother had to go back to where they came from in Ayr, Scotland one winter likely around 1896? maybe. They returned (his new wife and he who was also a citizen whose family's house burned down in Philadelphia around the same time to Clydebank Scotland. Then my mother's father and my mother's mother came back to the U.S. as a married couple betwee 1910 and 1912 by ship again.
So, the Ellis Island part of the show I found very sort of unsettling to know that likely my grandmother and grandfather had to go through this too. (my mother's mother and father).
However, my father's relatives came over by ship from Switzerland to Philadelphia (6 brothers) from near Zurich, Switzerland around 1725. So, likely I have relatives who fought in not only the revolutionary war but also my Grandfather's father was a Captain in the northern Army from Kansas too.
So, 1923 is an interesting blend in Montana of the 1880s and after World war I where there were planes and cars too even though rudimentary compared to the sophistication of now with international jet flights like worldwide buses and flights to the moon by some humans and people living in space stations up to a year or more at a time from many different countries.
However, I do know my grandmother was born in 1888 in Philadelphia so she actually was a citizen of the U.S. by birth and I do know my Great GRandfather was born in the 1840s and was a Captain in the Union Army (northern Army) during the Civil War.
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