Featured Came across this online and it is eye opening.

While we search and enjoy antiques in admiration of the beauty of days gone by. I now believe that time its self is an antique we tend to overlook. Came across this online today regarding ships that came over to America from Europe a century ago. And I’m just shocked as to 51 people died during the passage on only one of those ship, let alone the accumulation over the years. I’m just overly lucky to be here and grateful we live in a time such as we do. Had to share. Feeling blessed.

https://www.immigrantships.net/v7/1800v7/isaacwebb18510217.html

The amount of ships received in New York alone is shocking:
http://www.nyarrivals.com/immigrant_ships_ny_arrivals.html

 

WOW our immigration standards were low, though I dare say that some “idiots” did get through.

 

Agree. My grandfather's family came over on a boat and survived, and after getting here, his sister died from the Spanish flu. I think she was 13. I remind my children about that often.

 

pardon me, but that’s a post I just can hit the “Like” button on. I am sad to say, it was probably a familiar story for most families. Sometimes I’ll ponder on throughout history, just how few in my tree made it so that I am here at all let alone not in some current hardship country. Counting my blessings and all of ours.

 

My great grandparents came over here and made it in one piece. And had 3 children. One, who I am partially named after got really sick with perhaps the flu and didn't make it. My grandmother said losing her sister was agonizing. The sister that passed was engaged to marry a fella and he fell apart after she passed.

 

Not so shocking really when you consider that the dead were all infants and children, the most vulnerable, traveling from Ireland with their parents during the Potato Famine. They were likely in bad shape when they boarded the ship.