On 1/30/2011 1:07 PM, Michael Kenefick wrote: > Generic question for the masses. How do you define immigration? And / or > how do you define emigration? Do you consider them the same thing or a I > vs. E event? In my database, I have called all the relatives immigration > based on Census record, or other documentation. > > TIA for your opinion or supporting information as to a difference > between the two items. > > Michael Kenefick > Hilliard, Ohio Immigrants are people coming into a county Emigrants are people leaving a country. So my grandfather emigrated from Germany in November 1847 after a couple of months at sea immigrated into the US on February 1848.