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Frantzve is an extremely rare surname concentrated in the United States, with genealogical records and crowd‑sourced pages linking at least some bearers to a Swedish immigrant line (Carl Kenneth Frant...
The available reporting and archival guides indicate that ’s 1885 arrival would be recorded in the (the pre‑1892 microfilm series M237/Castle Garden–New York lists), not in the later‑created federal m...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and arrived in New York in mid-October of that year; contemporary accounts and family memoirs plac...
German immigrants in the 1890s generally pursued U.S. citizenship through a legal process that required a public declaration of intent followed by a petition for naturalization after a statutory resid...
Nineteenth‑century Protestant ideas shaped early U.S. immigration restriction by framing newcomers in religious and cultural terms — privileging Anglo‑Protestant norms while viewing Catholic, Jewish, ...
Late-19th and early-20th century U.S. and German laws shaped Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s migration: he emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16, an act that violated Bavarian ru...
The short answer: based on available reporting, than passed through during its 62 years of operation; the commonly cited modern estimate of roughly 8 million net migrants during Biden’s term is below ...
and represented two different eras of immigration administration, and those differences show up plainly in surviving records: Castle Garden was a state-run, 19th-century depot whose passenger lists we...
The short answer: not in raw cumulative numbers — the commonly cited period (1892–1954) saw roughly 12 million entries, while reporting assembled around recent -based tallies places net migration duri...
The short answer is: — the historical record shows processed roughly 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1954, while reporting about ’s four-year period (2021–2024) offers competing tallies and interpr...
arrived in the in October 1885 as a 16‑year‑old immigrant through , the primary New York entry point before , and later filed for a U.S. passport—both facts in the historical record that point to lawf...
There is no evidence in the reporting provided that links any individual named specifically to immigration records in the 1920s; the sources describe broad patterns, shorthand routes and documentary c...
Historical records substantiate that Frederick (Friedrich) Trump immigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 and is recorded in U.S. immigration files under variants of his German name (e.g.,...
Immigration enforcement in the United States is emphatically not a recent phenomenon: federal regulation and exclusionary practices date to the earliest years of the republic and were formalized throu...
Friedrich Trump (born Friedrich Drumpf) arrived in the United States in October 1885 as a 16‑year‑old from Germany, according to historical summaries; available reporting notes the date and his age bu...
U.S. federal passenger and naturalization records from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were created by laws and institutions such as the Steerage Act and Ellis Island and provide systematic pas...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump is documented in U.S. arrival records as a 16‑year‑old who sailed from Bremen on the S.S. Eider on October 7, 1885 and was processed at New York’s Castle Garden on October ...
Passenger manifests show Mary Anne MacLeod arriving in New York on May 11, 1930 aboard the S.S. Transylvania and list her occupation as “maid” or “domestic,” and later manifests record multiple return...