Dear Cousins, I am inviting a discussion of two words that are used a lot in genealogy, but which have different meanings for different people. The words are "emigrate" and "immigrate". According to my Funk & Wagnall: "emigrate: To go from one country, or section of a country, to settle in another. A person *emigrates from* the land he leaves, and *immigrates to* the land where he takes up his abode." Also, according to my granddaughter's Macmillan Dictionary for Children: "emigrate: To leave one's own country to live in another. Her family plans to emigrate from the United States to England." "emigrant: A person who leaves his own country to live in another. Peggy's parents were emigrants from Ireland." "immigrate: To go to live in a country in which one was not born. My grandparents immigrated to the United States from Poland." "immigrant: A person who comes to live in a country in which he or she was not born. My grandfather was an immigrant to the United States from Italy." I had been confused by these two words for many years and for the past year have had the above definitions posted on the bulletin board above my desk. Can anyone else offer a different definition? Nevada Jack