Once again I am getting a report that my replies to comments are not being received despite subscribing to receive follow-up comments. Is this happening to anyone else? If you submitted a comment and did NOT get a reply from me, then something is wrong. I reply to every comment, even if just to say Thank you. PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Thanks!
Brotmanblog: A Family Journey
Adventures in Genealogy
Brotmanblog: A Family Journey 
I just want you to know I read this. Let’s see if I get your comment.
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OK, I am replying. Let me know if you get this one.
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Yes I did get your reply
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Tell me if you get this one also. It’s the second one.
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Got this one too
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Good! But why did it work that time??
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These stories are so close–close in time, close in that only the details really change even with families presumably unrelated like yours and mine. The essences of these immigrant stories are the same.
But they are also so distant, so clearly belonging to a different world, a time utterly lost to us, however few the actual years that have passed.
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You have stated it beautifully, John. That’s just how I feel: their world was so different, but I don’t want it to be utterly lost. Thus, I am trying in some way to capture it for posterity. It’s not just my family—it’s the family of every American descended from an immigrant in the late 19th, early 20th century.
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