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My family represents the union to two distinct, yet typical patterns in American colonization. My father's side of the family originated in Germany and immigrated to America in the mid-1700s. They followed the migration trend of others in the South, moving in the 1800s west through Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and into Texas. My mother's family settled in the Northeast, first in Massachusetts Bay Colony and then spreading out from there into other parts of New England and then New York. She and her parents moved from New York to Texas in the 1940s. |