Crystal Castillo

Geography 10

Family History ProjectPart 3

Definition - The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

My family migrated to United States from Germany and Ireland.

Immigration

The first wave of immigration was between the years of 1600-1820.

My family on my mothers side came from Germany in the First wave of immigration in the early 1800’s

Waves of Immigration

The Second wave of Immigration was between the years of 1840-1890.

My family on my fathers side came from Ireland and Germany in The second wave of immigration in 1870.

Port of Entry is defined as a town where people and goods enter the country.

My families Port of Entry was Pennsylvania.

They resided in Herman and Butler.

Port of Entry

Herman, Pennsylvania

Herman, Pennsylvania

Economic Sectors

PRIMARY SECTOR: When products are taken directly from the earth.

My Great-Great Grandparents were farmers, making them work in the Primary Sector.

Tertiary Sector: Sales

My grandfathers worked in sales, and my grandmothers were homemakers.

Economic Sectors

Catholic Religion was very common in the Northern Appalachia area such as Pennsylvania.

My grandparents were raised very Catholic and still continue to be so.

My mother and uncles went to Catholic church every Sunday their entire lives.

RELIGION

My family falls into the first two largest Ancestral Groups

1. German2. Irish

Largest Ancestral Groups

Germans are the largest ancestry group in the United States.

Approximately 17.1% of the population is German (2006)

My family on my mothers side is from Bavaria, Germany.

Germans

- The first significant numbers arrived in 1680’s in New York and Pennsylvania.

- The Pull Factors to United States were better economic conditions, especially the opportunity for farmers to own land.

- My assumptions are that my family immigrated for better farm opportunity considering they owned a farm and worked in the primary sector.

Germans

My grandparents married in Pennsylvania In a Catholic church.

RELIGION

Estimated 11.9% of the United States population are Irish.

My family on my fathers side came from Ireland and also Germany.

Catholic religion is a common religion among the Irish population

My family on my fathers side are also Catholic.

Irish

Movements of persons within a nation’s geographical boundaries, involving a change in

usual place of residence.

My families moved from Boise, Idaho and Herman, Pennsylvania to Glendora, California which are

within the United States Boundaries.

Internal Migration

Rural to Urban MigrationMoving from a Rural

area such as

farmland, to a urban

community such as

Los Angeles.

My family moved

from Boise, Idaho to

Glendora, CA

My family also

moved from Herman,

Pennsylvania to

Glendora, CA

PENNSYLVANIA

TO

CALIFORNIA

MY GRANDFATHERS BOTH WERE IN WORLD WAR TWO IN THE AIR FORCE

WORLD WAR TWO

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