Immigration Ellis Island 1911

[dreadwerx]

Great video, I enjoyed the footage and your story. I think it is so important to try and keep our history alive and remember where we came from. Thanks for sharing.

[allianZ110]

My english homework -.-'''

[laxroxmonkey]

@allianZ110 lol me too

[allianZ110]

@laxroxmonkey good luck! :D

[legoboy854]

thats a great last name!

[FinchelLuvForeva2999]

this is great it helped me alot with my project on immigration to ellis island! thanx!

[hhjrocks1]

this is gret

at story to tell and first i thought the same as u if u couldnt.is ur dad again and.i am.happy because u didnt have u chsnge ur name.

[BatusaiJack]

woo hooo America

[hopeshayshayshaynah0]

my ancestors were immergrants from Hungray

[motstraumen]

My grandfather came the same year from Norway. One of our stories about him was one Saturday he was chatting with a Dane in Clear Lake, IA and as they talked about coming over here lo and behold they found out that they had been on the same ship from England to New York. Small world.

[HardrockerLuck]

KOM LAMER HIC CEY BIEN

JAYM TRO CA LAI CON TRAULE

[GlamGirlH]

@HardrockerLuck I don't speak whatever language this is!

[Sheireen23]

your video is brilliant!

[lineslot]

I'm teaching 8th grade history in Denmark. While surfing the internet for small videos on the subject emigration, I came across your film. THANK YOU! Next Friday I'll show my students your fine work. I think they will like it. ;-)

[lineslot]

They did like it! :-)

[nashoba3]

why is there french talking

[afewtube]

Thanks for this!

One of my ancestors emigrated to America from Nottingham, England, and landed at Ellis island in 1912, a year after this film was made. His name was Frederick Blore and he finished up in Silvertown, Connecticut.

There are letters in the family written by him, describing his new life. He soon found work because Nottingham was a textile manufacturing city and apparently there were plenty of textile factories in Connecticut.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@afewtube might be classed as a snienton american

[MissxMoe]

On comprend rien; on est des flancs !

[GlamGirlH]

@adrienjougla Well...I don't speak French, so making a French version of this video would be pretty difficult.

[aliciabozza]

Great job!

[indigofugit]

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and so you should be...... well done

[AKReaderGirl]

Nicely done! My 4th graders are studying immigration, and this will add a person touch for them. Thank you!

[xMissRetrox]

I love this!!! :) I work on my family tree everyday, it's so fun. I'm trying to find my x4 great grandfather, (I'm 15) he was from Denmark. Wonderful project, I would give an A+!! haha.

[bennyman1982]

A very moving story. My 3xgreat grandfather immigrated to the US in 1886 after his wife died. I am a Brit but I have a direct ancestor who immigrated. He settled in Pennsylvania. Amazing.

[scorpietta]

Thank you, my grandfather, Pasquale DiVincenzo, emmigrated here in '11 or

'12. He became known as Pat. I would very much love to do some research into his experience. I can't even begin to imagine what passage in steerage was like.

[HFV2010]

My grandmother and grandfather immigrated to USA at the beginning of XX century.

They are met there and got married after in Chicago.

But my mother was born in Belarus, but its a long story

BTW

I concern myself with genealogy researching and searching distant relatives of descendants of that immigration, here in Belarus, Poland and in Smolensk, Pskov regions of Russia.

[mgrb530]

enjoyed your clip- I will share with my 5th graders. thank you for your hard work.

[MariinaM]

Hi GlamgirlH. I'm working about Ellis island at school but i'm french , I understand a little bit what you says on your video but not all because you speak too fast. =) Can you help me ?

[snoopdogg749]

is that possible for you GlamGirlH to supply me the text that you read in this video?

[Klarko2202]

allé vou faire enculé les americain !

[GlamGirlH]

I don't speak French...

[jutaetmassi]

That means : Fuck you americas !!!!

[GlamGirlH]

@jutaetmassi well...I find that pretty unnecessary. thanks for the translation though.

[K1llScr33nMILK]

@jutaetmassi can u do us all a favor and stop bashing on america?

we are the GREATEST country ever to be on the face of this planet, and the french wish they could go anywhere near us without having to retreat and go home. there is NOTHING wrong with america.

[pokaontasdu86]

@GlamGirlH espece de fou mdr

[courthouse96]

John Wayne was deaf in one ear which disqualified him from military service. People should get their facts straight.

[GlamGirlH]

and i still don't understand what my project has to do with John Wayne in the first place??

[hector0282]

Beautiful America...

[CzechDetectingTours]

Hey Lazlos, looked on yer bio baby, looked like nobody had a nice fuckin word for ya guy. You're 55, and your fav vid is "Do The Hustle"?? Ok dude, leave this girl alone, who traced her ancestors from Denmark, you look creepy you know??? John Wayne would have cred if he went into a war? You're sad dude.

[LazlosPlane]

Nice job except it's ruined by your use of John Wayne, the draft dodging phony patriot hypocritical piece of shit.

[GlamGirlH]

i don't even know what you mean. How did I use John Wayne?

[LazlosPlane]

Oops. My mistake.

[nuovogalloitalia]

GOOD WORK!YOU HAVE A TALENT!

[parrotperson123]

no, the ppl got their names changed cuze it was misspelled, or not pronounsed right. this is good tho.

[GlamGirlH]

well no, I'm pretty sure that people knew how to spell their own last names hahaha. Their names were changed to sound more American...use English sounds, spelled the way they wanted them to sound if read by an English speaker. Their original names were however NOT misspelled in their own languages

[parrotperson123]

that wasn't what i saw saying... i mean that the people at ellis island didn't bother to spell their named right... for example a friend at my schools last name is cimorell, but her name was supposed to be cimorellie. but i guess you have a point too, lol. but all the things ive leared about ellis island so far has said that they didnt spell it rite cuzethey just didnt bother. the imigrants didnt spell their names, the ppl there did it for them..

[myk3727]

This was a great project. My great-grandparents, Luigi and Conchetta Tassone, came from Southern Italy. They lived in Calabria and departed from Palermo, Sicily in 1911. Maybe our ancestors(or whoever's ancestors were in your video) passed each other by on Ellis Island? :)

Great job!

Myke,Pittsburgh,PA

[RosaLuxemborg]

As far as I can tell, you are saying Aalborg. Aalborg is about as far away from Copenhagen, as you can get in Denmark. Just to let you know. Other than that I think it is a nice depiction of immigration.

[brotmann86]

nothing is really far away in danmark ;-))

[UsedNeedles]

Nice work. You did a fine job making this. :)

My great grandfather came here from Denmark too! Only it was in 1914, not 1911. We aren't sure why he came here, but we're assuming it was to start a new life. They changed his name as well! O:

[Painkilaxx]

Great job, I learnt all I wanted about Ellis island thanks to this work you did.

[theatrekat404]

This is pretty cool. I liked the first person point of view. :)

[pariiis91]

Pire que sa c'est dla merdee

[diigiital91]

mdr vous avez raison...ça crain

[RRuskov91]

devoir plus que medikk inutile on comprend rien a se qu'elle dit!!!

[pariiis91]

Ouai Devoir de merdee moi jdiis

[alexmafia13]

je vois il y a un commentaire c'est signé le loveur on cite pas de nom mais moi je sais qui c'est mdr. je sens il y en a qui on la haine de faire un devoir d'anglais.

[SlipknotForever91490]

oh putain g tro la gaule. Suce moi salope

[shawnjohnson678]

I am learning about immigration!!

[sexyb00bies]

Oh OUIII Allez un plus encooore. ça y est ...

J'adore ta voix. Tu me fais bander.

[apruden]

How impressive! I'm an English teacher in a French highschool and I would like to use your video for my Sophomores. I'll let you know how it goes

[nitevixen440]

You did an outstanding job on this and I hope you got an A. :)

[Tadhg64]

Outstanding. Good on you.

[bbhaywood]

Excellent Illumination of America elevated by generous immigration.

[CJCody2006]

Great Story. I've done up some of the passenger lists from the White Star Liner Olympic (sister ship of Titanic) and a large number of the immigrants she carried to the US were from Scandinavia. To be exact, 202 immigrants from Denmark traveled over on the Olympic between June 1911 and May 1913, with more to come as I process more lists. I have seen quite a few people on the lists from Aalborg and it's interesting to see where they were all going.

[vittofranci]

Le grandi immigrazioni in italia furono la diretta conseguenza dell'unificazione nord sud. Il popolo meridionale, derubato spogliato deportato, privato del proprio territorio fu costretto dai politici Italiani del tempo ad emigrare verso le americhe e il nord europa. La BANCA D'ITALIA insaccava grosse percentuali di denaro che gli immigrati spedivano ai parenti rimasti in Italia Quel denaro finanziava le industrie del nord Italia.

Italiani nel mondo..volete votare oggi i politici mafiosi?

[DisappearingGirl24]

yeah, very good job!

[ZeekyHB0MB]

Good job! And where'd you get those pictures?

[jarvart]

this is a good song

ella terry

[Irediz]

grüße an alle aus der 8E ges hennef

[siana2b]

Congratulations on your work ! That's a good job ! I would like to ask you a question : where did you find this testimony ? I have an essay to write on Ellis Island and I'm looking for oral or written accounts of immigrants'experience. Could you help me ?

Thank you very much !

[Narragansett55]

Great job! I've actually been to Aalborg ages ago when I was in the Navy. They have a Danish-American festival every year there.

[oswald1973]

How about compensating the blacks and colored?

[oswald1973]

Do you have any statistics and information showing that illegal immigrants or poor immigrants costing taxpayers? There ain't any poor legal immigrants, for your information. So, don't try to twist the phrase. Also, tell me, how can an illegal get welfare?

[oswald1973]

scot, the reason why the system breaks, because the money is going somewhere that is not necessary. Even if all the illegals spent all the welfare money (which is not true), it can never compare to the amount of money spent on the Iraq war and maintaining the hundreds of oversea bases.

[oswald1973]

Hahaha, America is a welfare state. Illegals living off American tax payers. Nice try, but it's not.

[armoniamg59]

Most Mexican inmigrants are American Indians. They have very little if any European background. Their ancestors were here long before Ellis Island had that name. Blacks have Africa and Whites have Europe, Mexicans not Mexicanos have America.

[stanley4889]

most latinos have native american blood

[armoniamg59]

Yes, many Latinos have some American Indian blood but most of all the poor ones that come from Central, South America and Mexico are called Mexican regardless of their country of origin. But I was talking about the short, brown skin, slant dark eyes, yet black straight hair American Indians from south of the border.

[oswald1973]

Life was getting hard in Denmark. Life's getting hard in Mexico too. You just need to walk up the shore of New York, get medically examined, and then once you passed, you were free to walk and given a U.S. citizenship. Sounds like immigration today seems more difficult.

[Jim275]

Many years ago when I was in the Coast Guard we had to take the maintenence prople to and from the island. At one point, I went onto the island and wandered through the offices and halls. I read some of the immigrant files.  What stories they were. To this day, I am impressed with how badly these people wanted to come here, including my own mother. They made us what we are. Great post.

[NClackum]

GlangirlH, you did a marvelous job on this, you should be proud. Hold on to these wonderful photos and share them with your children oneday.

[NClackum]

Most of the immigrants who came here through Ellis Island didn't speak English, but they sent their children to schools to learn. I can't answer your questions, but if there is anything to gain by illegal immigrants coming here from Mexico without obtaining citizenship first, you can bet that Bush and others in the government are profitting from it, just as they're profitting from the oil cartel being able to raise prices sky high. And who feels the brunt of all this?? We do.

[olyhome1]

You are aboslutly right! Wake up America!!!

[olyhome1]

And thats how the mexicans should be coming in..legally and speaking english and no welfare checks or sponging off taxpayer paid hospital care. My kids didnt get free college, they worked jobs and went to college. Say... just who is behind all this and why would they do that? Whats in it for Bush?

[hornybodhisattva]

The extensive research actually proves that the immigrants that arrived to Ellis island did not Speak English and many of them would not Learn it in their own lifetime. Mexicans are a new kind of Immigrant because they come from a country that is ZERO Miles away and From MEXICO A NATION THAT PREDATES THE USA AND CANADA IN NORTH AMERICA. I THInk your anger would  be more fitted to this administration which has doubled the national debt and decimated our military.. PRIORITES FIRST!

[olyhome1]

I'm guessing your mex.? Sorry we dont owe those people a living. When we all get down to min. wage who then will buy consumer prod.? Outsourceing inside america sucks!

[hornybodhisattva]

AM AN AMERICAN OF Mexican BIRTH, MY MOTHER Married a decendent of an Ellis Island Immigrant. AMERICAN CORPORATIONS HAVE SOLD OUT THE INTEREST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, CONGRESS RAISES THE MINIMUM WAGE, YOU KNOW people in power not people with no power. As long as questioning the people IN POWER IS SEEN AS UNPATRIOTIC we will continue to focus on people that do not have a say in AMerican Policies.

[NClackum]

Agree with you 100%. My daughter is in college now, she's 36, when she tried to get into college, she didn't get any help either, she's working during the day at a college and going to school at night.