Arlene, I can't answer your question but I do know of a family who went to Siberia and North Africa and no doubt other places in between. I happened to put in Border Crossing on Ancestry and their name and children came up. They were on their way to their sponsor in Texas. After a couple of years they came to Detroit where their uncle lived. I always wondered why the uncle did not sponsor them. The mother and father are gone but the brother and sister are still here. He was a young teenager and I will call him this week. I don't like to interrupt on a Sunday. Checking the information I don't think they had the opportunity to make a decision of where they were going. I never heard them complain but when their time was done they were happy to come to MI.where their family was. Irene,