When a great-grandfather was leaving a country permanently to settle he was an EMIGRANT. While in the process of leaving, he was EMIGRATING. When he arrived at the new location where he intended to settle, he was an IMMIGRANT snd when we speak of his coming to the new place, he was IMMIGRATING. Should his journey have been because of war, political unrest or oppression, his leaving one country for another made him an EMIGRE. If there was a little gypsy in his soul and he moved from one place to another without settling, he was MIGRATING. (From the Florida Genealogy Soceity) ===================================================== SUPPORT OUR TROOPS------FLY THE FLAG "Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: they hide...I seek!!!" www.byrge.com/genealogy/ Searching: BYRGE, BUNCH, DAUGHERTY, DUNCAN, KENNEDY, PATTERSON, PHILLIPS, SEIBER, TACKETT, WARD. =====================================================