Immigration is very important. I had my Joseph TALBOT emigrate from Somerset to New York. It was some years later while looking for more TALBOTs that I realised that Uncle Joseph had been very kind to his young nephews, particularly a couple whose mother had remarried in Bedminster and had another child. I imagine it must have been a difficult time for the two boys so uncle Joseph took them under his wing in the US. If you find someone in your family has emigrated and then you lose some of the extended family, then do what I did, have a look around the same area where your ancestor lived and with luck you will find them there. Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Jefferies" <chris.jefferies@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [B&D] Deaths and burials!!! >I had several families who just disappeared in the latter part of the 19th > century. They were in earlier census then disappeared even though still > quite young. There was the obvious possibility that they emigrated but > without any clue they could have gone anywhere. The possibility increased > as > several siblings also disappeared

Liz wrote: Immigration is very important. -------------------------------------------------------------- I second that, According to a family story one off mine,Elijah SALMON, went to America during the later part of the 19th Century but nobody knew which part. After about a year I came across a possible living in Colorado so I went on to their equivalent of [B&D] and a member there offered to check the Colorado 1880 census, the information she sent back confirmed it was my Elijah. The bonus though by chance she came across another SALMON entry on the next page, Alfred, so included his details as well. It turned out that it was Elijah's older brother who I had lost track off after 1861 I have since found out he moved to Wales during the 1860's married and then emigrated, Elijah followed soon after. Now whereas Elijah married but had no children Alfred married twice and had a total of eleven the descendants of some I have traced and all that came about by a chance find. John