My ggrandparents William and Catherine Keller Eager, and their children, apparently moved to the US about 1900 from Madoc, Hastings Co., Ont to Boone County Nebraska. I'm basing the timing of the move on a daughter's birth records of 1900 that state that she was born in the US. I've looked for naturalization records in the US in both Nebraska and in New York where they later moved, but haven't found them. However, in the 1920 census, when the family lived in Preston Hollow, NY, William states that he came to the US before 1900 (the actual date in the census is very difficult to read.). I was thinking that William came to the US ahead of his family which might explain why he isn't mentioned in an 1897 newspaper article in Tweed, Ont describing the death of his 2 young daughters in a house fire. My mother remembers her mother (William & Catherine's daughter) telling her that the whole family became citizens when William became a citizen, so I think that record is out there somewhere, just waiting for me. If there were no brick walls, would genealogy be as exciting? Gloria Myra Herron wrote: > Only the 'countries' knew that the borders meant something. Likely, like my ancestors, the borders were fairly meaningless. They just moved where they wanted, and only filled out papers when it was demanded of them. Mine just moved from Canada to Michigan and admitted to it in censuses. Often, they had to apply for citizenship to seal their rights in the country, but many of them didn't bother. > > >