-----Original Message----- From: John Saillant, W. Michigan Univ. <john.saillant@WMICH.EDU> To: H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:25:17 -0400 Subject: Striking quotations by/about Virginia immigrants From "Ayres, Edward S." <edward.ayres@jyf.virginia.gov> Sent Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:08 am To john.saillant@wmich.edu Subject Striking quotations by/about Virginia immigrants The Yorktown Victory Center of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation is planning a new permanent exhibit entitled "A Nation of Immigrants" that will open in the late Summer of 2006. This exhibit will focus on immigration to Virginia primarily during the period from 1700 to about 1860, with a special emphasis on the post-Revolutionary and early National periods. The exhibit team would like to identify four or five contemporary, "quotable" statements ca 1700-1830 by or about Virginia immigrants or groups, their experiences, and what drew them to Virginia or drove them to leave their homeland. Even statements that do not specifically refer to Virginia, but would nevertheless be valid, could be useful. Any examples or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Edward Ayres, Historian Yorktown Victory Center Yorktown, Virginia ph (757) 847-3129 fax (757) 887-1306 email: edward.ayres@jyf.virginia.gov

I contacted the NARA in Philadelphia looking for the naturalization papers for my family. They found my three uncles but not my mother and grandparents. I was surprised that my uncles waited 15 years before becoming citizens. Obtaining them is so easy. You email them with the information and you get a message that they have received your request. A week later an email arrived with what they found. It will cost $10 to obtain the three records they found. Where do I go next to find my grandparents and mother? Judith Brown www.pafairtax.org   "We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.” – Ronald Reagan   “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." --C. L. De Montesquieu