Nevada Jack, Easy way to remember usage: "e" means out or out of; and "im" means in or into. Immigrate=migrate in or into; emigrate=migrate out or out of. It's a pity they don't teach Latin in high school anymore. You can also think of it this way. You immerse something in water, but it emerges (or is emersed) when you bring it out. Edgar -----Original Message----- From: Jack W. Ralph <nvjack@intercomm.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 16 July, 1999 11:59 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT-L] Emigrants and Immigrants >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 > > > > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >View the Cousins Directory at http://users.intercomm.com/nvjack/davnport/others.htm > >