Question

1. Interview an older family member (parent, grandparent, older sibling, uncle, aunt, etc.) in order to learn story of how your family came to live in the US. And how your family has come to settle wherever it is that your family now lives. The following question should be addressed:

▪ Immigration status – for those going back several generations, learn as much as you can.

▪ Where did your family immigration from (town, village) and what

was the route of travel?

▪ How did your family learn about the opportunity to immigrate?

▪ What was the immigrant experience like for your family?

▪ What sources of assistance (if any) did your family receive?

▪ What jobs did they first work at and how did they find opportunities for those jobs?

▪ What “historical events” shaped your family’s immigration experience?

▪ What place or places have particular significance to your family and why?

2. Interview yourself about your family. Address the following questions:

▪ The size and make up of your “nuclear” family. Where are you in the birth order?

▪ What are the various roles that each family members?

▪ What connection do you have with your extended family (i.e. uncles, aunts, cousins, etc.)?

▪ What organization does your family belong to? (ethnic, mainstream, occupational)

▪ If your family belongs to ethnic organizations, how important is that membership?

3. Interview yourself about yourself. Address the following questions:

▪ Where do you “fit” into your family?

▪ What role does your family have in your life and choices? i.e. college, major.

▪ What obligations if any do you feel you have to your family?

▪ How has your family and its history impacted your life and identity?

▪ What place or places have particular significance to you in

reference to your family?

4. You must use some outside readings and class lectures as a partial basis for your historical foundation.

4-6 pages

Answer 1

I interviewed my grand father asked himany questions about the settlement in Us about generations back and his answer was like this:

* in 188p my grandfater migrated US from england, during that time he stelled temporary in US , he was an business man and stay in a small town. he liked earn a lot of money from his business and like the US and he decided to settle here after that i take birth in 1951and all our 4 generations are residing in Us and you(i) are the 5th generation boy in our dynasty. (Grandpa talking to me)

* My family imigrated from a small village of England. The travelling route of journey is sea.

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