My grandparents that came from Austro hungary kingdom were this way too. Sad cuz now they have gone and it's try to find some information about the remaining family (that it seems they're in slovenia now) ---------- > De: Anne Mary C. Chapirson <Hcounter@AOL.COM> > Grupos de notícias: soc.genealogy.slavic > Assunto: Re: Why were immigrants so secretive? > Data: Sábado, 10 de Maio de 1997 19:04 > > In a message dated 97-04-08 13:52:36 EDT, you write: > > << I've often jokingly said that it is so hard to find information about my > immigrant grandfather > that it was almost as if he deliberately tried to hide. Maybe it's not such > a > joke! > >> > I have found the same thing with my husband's Russian Jewish family. > Paperwork is really hard to find on them, including the census. > > Annie >