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Timinator01 t1_j6gp7me wrote

My great grandmother came from Poland and entered through Canada. We’ve tried to find the records but we think she might have been illegal since we can’t seem to find anything before her social security paperwork. There’s also the clusterfuck of spelling polish names and how her name was Americanized once she arrived. Unfortunately nobody really looked into it (or asked her) before she died and we found out her age was a few years off from what she had told us.

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No_Smile821 t1_j6gml9g wrote

Swimming! Did he swim from the Mexican shores to the TX ones? Or was he dumped in the Gulf of Mexico in some way?

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Ok_Try_1217 OP t1_j6gn9e2 wrote

I’m pretty sure he swam across the Rio Grande but sadly, I never asked him.

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MtPollux t1_j6hjc6z wrote

Plot twist: grandpa was from Spain. He swam the whole way to Texas.

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Ok_Try_1217 OP t1_j6hkgwk wrote

I mean, dude did live to almost 100 and only stopped riding his bike everywhere in his 80s after having it stolen getting jumped in Chicago.

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