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From: "Kenn and Jan Hubel" <>
Subject: Re: [CZ] Reasons for emigration
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:47:37 -0700
References: <132.25304a2.28e7b481@cs.com>


Thank you so much for your information. The family history that you sent
helps to make the reasons for emigration all the more personal and to
illuminate the conditions in Bohemia that led our relatives to leave.
Kenn Hubel, Iowa

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [CZ] Reasons for emigration


> Dear Ken,
>
> My father ws sent to this country as a boy of 13 out of economic
necessity.
> His father died the January of his 13th year. His mother was obliged to
> marry again with the year in order to hang on to their small acreage. The
> widower she planned to marry had a daughter, and with my grandmother's
two,
> that made 3 children for them to support. They could not afford it, so
the
> remedy was to send Dad to America to relatives in Chicago, who would take
> care of him and support him to the age of 18, when he could get a job and
> fend for himself.
>
> So Dad came to Chicago, was taken care of lovingly by his cousins and
> supported until he was of age. We maintain loving relations with the
> remainder of the family to this day.
>
> Mary Hosteny
>
>
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