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How My Family Came to Michigan and the USA

How My Family Came to Michigan and the USA. By Maggie L ang. Where my family immigrated from: (My mom’s mother’s side).

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How My Family Came to Michigan and the USA

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  1. How My Family Came to Michigan and the USA By Maggie Lang

  2. Where my family immigrated from:(My mom’s mother’s side)

  3. My Great-Great-Great Grandpa & Grandma Wieda (my mom’s, mother’s Great-Grandparents) immigrated to the USA from Büsum, Germany in 1880. One of their children was Fred Wieda who was born in Germany in 1876. He was my Great-Great Grandfather Wieda. The family settled in Manistee, Michigan. They came to the USA to have a better life. My Great-Great- Great Grandfather got a job in the lumber business. Fred Wieda

  4. My Great-Great-Great Grandpa & Grandma Simoneau (my mom’s, mother’s other Great-Grandparents) immigrated to the USA from Quebec, Canada in 1884. The family settled in Manistee, Michigan. They came to the USA to have a better life. One of their children was was Anna and was the first of their children to be born in the USA. She married Fred Wieda in 1906 in Manistee and eventually became my Great-Great Grandma Wieda. Anna Simoneau Anna and Fred Wieda

  5. My Great-Great Grandma Illig (my mom’s, mother’s Grandma) immigrated to the USA from Berlin, Germany in 1910. Her name was Martha Pirsig and she came to the USA by herself at age 18 and arrived at Ellis Island. She came to the US to have a better life. She settled in Hartford, Connecticut and worked as a maid and nanny. Her parents and two sisters didn’t come to the US until 1921. She later met Kurt Illig and married him in 1912 in Hartford. The ship, Cincinnati, that my Great-Great Grandma Illig sailed on to the USA.

  6. This is the passenger log from when my Great-Great Grandma Illig landed at Ellis Island. She was passenger #24.

  7. My Great-Great Grandpa Illig (my mom’s, mother’s Grandpa) immigrated to the USA from Zwickau, Germany in 1911. He was in the German Merchant Marines and while in port in New York, he jumped overboard and never returned to his ship. He settled in Hartford, Connecticut where he met and married Martha Pirsig. They moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1926 and then moved to Manistee, Michigan in 1929 where Kurt was an engineer. Kurt & Martha Illig

  8. This is Kurt & Martha’s daughter, Margaret, who I’m named after. She was on her way home from a trip back to Germany in this picture.

  9. The End!!!

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